How are helping children manage behavior and enhancing their literacy skills related?
What will be an ideal response?
Question 2...At what age do children take on leadership during book reading, such as turning pages and babbling along when being read to?
a. three to six months
b. six to nine months
c. twelve months
d. fifteen months
Question 3...Which of the following affects the quality of the literacy environment in the home?
a. interpersonal interactions or the literacy experiences shared by children, parents, siblings, and other individuals in the home
b. the physical environment or literacy materials in the home
c. the emotional and motivational climate or the attitudes of literacy and parent aspirations for literacy achievement
d. all of the above
Question 4...Define differentiated instruction and discuss methods of organizing for it.
What will be an ideal response?
Question 5...In performing evaluations of your staff members, it is best to use a system:
a. that remains secret.
b. that the staff vote on together
c. that lets the staff members do their own evaluations.
d. that the staff are able to review in advance
Question 6...Miss Marks is planning her daily literacy instruction. It should include all of the following except which one?
a. She should include whole-group and small-group lessons as well as times for independent reading and writing.
b. She should teach students how to comprehend by reading a variety of books aloud and then following up with carefully constructed worksheet questions to assess what the students understood.
c. She should provide time to explicitly teach important skills such as phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency.
d. She should plan activities that develop students' oral language through experiences and discussions that encourage students to talk with each other and with her.
Question 7...A good method for a teacher to use for figuring out the purpose of a child's challenging behavior is________.
A. checklist
B. rating scale
C. functional behavior assessment
D. observation of hot spots