Why should teachers allow students time to think?
a. Being given more time forces students to think before answering.
b. Being given more time enables students to process questions and formulate better responses.
c. It is the polite thing to do.
d. It relaxes the students.
[Ques. 2] What strategies can teachers use for prereading instruction?
a. Relating student experience to text
c. Predicting text content
b. Diagramming the sentences
d. Both a and c
[Ques. 3] What type of information is used to make inferences?
a. Stated information
c. Superfluous
b. Background experience
d. Both a and b
[Ques. 4] What type of thinking is involved in recognizing stated main ideas?
a. Literal
c. Creative
b. Inferential
d. Critical
[Ques. 5] Effective questioning can
a. focus student attention on the content of a text.
b. stimulate higher levels of cognitive processing.
c. help teachers evaluate students comprehension of text.
d. do all of the above.
[Ques. 6] What type of comprehension is sought at the inferential level?
a. Evaluation of ideas read
c. Understanding of ideas that arent stated
b. Literal understanding
d. Application of ideas
[Ques. 7] Which of the following is not included in explicit comprehension strategy instruction?
a. Think-alouds
c. Modeling
b. Scaffolding
d. Decoding
[Ques. 8] How is comprehension defined?
a. The process of constructing a supportable understanding of a text
b. Predicting the content of a printed selection
c. Both a and b
d. Neither a nor b
[Ques. 9] Textual schemata do not facilitate comprehension.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
[Ques. 10] Reader response theory is based on the transaction between a reader and a text.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
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