Providing students opportunities to explore written language with paper and pencil helps them to form expectations that print is meaningful.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Ques. 2Invented spellings signal to parents and teachers that children are beginning to analyze speech sounds in print.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Ques. 3Research shows reading aloud to children is an important activity for building the knowledge and skills they need to become successful readers.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Ques. 4Young children develop as early readers and writers from birth as they progress from transitional reading to awareness and exploration.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Ques. 5Explain the three major categories the Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) is organized around and how it is designed to provide teachers with an effective framework for instruction.
What will be an ideal response?
Ques. 6Imagine you teach students with diverse academic and cognitive abilities. What are two strategies you would use with a struggling learner and two strategies you would use with a gifted learner? Why would those be the best strategies to use? Defend your reasoning for selecting the strategies that you did.
What will be an ideal response?
Ques. 7Imagine you are building a library for a body of diverse learners. What are some questions to consider when selecting multicultural classroom literature? Explain how multicultural resources benefit culturally diverse students as well as culturally mainstream students.
What will be an ideal response?
Ques. 8Explain three strategies you could use to accommodate ELL students in your classroom.
What will be an ideal response?
Ques. 9Discuss how instructional beliefs about linguistic diversity have changed in recent history. What legislation is currently in place, and how does it affect diverse learners?
What will be an ideal response?
Ques. 10English language learners best learn academic language when it is taught via
A) meaningful contexts. B) direct instruction.
C) memorization. D) None of the above
Ques. 11Which of the following should a teacher of students with diverse needs consider in terms of building his or her curriculum?
A) Validating each child's experience
B) Developing collaborative learning communities
C) Fostering ethnic, national, and global identification
D) All of the above