When 8-year-old Renee said, The polar bear tumbled down the hill like a slippery snowball, she used a:
a) simile
b) metaphor
c) homograph
d) cognate
Ques. 2Of the following, the best way for parents to build their children's vocabulary is to:
a) encourage them to take responsibility for homework assignments
b) prohibit television viewing
c) provide pens and pencils at home
d) read to them every day
Ques. 3While discussing vocabulary instruction, the school's principal correctly advised a new teacher to focus upon:
a) helping students differentiate between the terms simile and metaphor
b) helping students understand vocabulary and figurative language in the texts they are reading
c) helping students find and write definitions of unfamiliar words
d) administering vocabulary tests
Ques. 4When selecting words for vocabulary instruction, experienced teachers correctly advised a new colleague that:
a) all words are equally important for students to learn
b) words have different levels of usefulness
c) words should be introduced in alphabetical order
d) English learners should be excused from vocabulary instruction
Ques. 5To encourage students to vary their word choices and use more interesting and descriptive words in their writing, it would be most effective for a teacher to present a lesson on:
a) homonyms
b) synonyms
c) phonemes
d) graphemes
Ques. 6The term researchers use to describe a student's interest in learning and using new words is:
a) word sort
b) word consciousness
c) word wall
d) word recognition
Ques. 7Of the following, the most effective way to focus students' attention on words is to:
a) ask students to write new words as handwriting practice
b) ask students to write the definitions of new words
c) give weekly vocabulary tests
d) write important words on word-wall charts and post them in the classroom
Ques. 8A student's ability to determine the meaning of new words is helped by his:
a) visual acuity
b) background knowledge
c) phonemic awareness
d) spatial awareness
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