Sixth-grade teacher Ashley Cole gave her students graphic organizers because they needed help to organize their writing. By demonstrating the use of graphic organizers, this teacher provided:
a) metacognition
b) schemata
c) scaffolding
d) proximal development
Ques. 2The theory which emphasizes the use of all six language arts to communicate, solve problems, and persuade others to a course of action is known as:
a) informational literacy
b) cultural literacy
c) critical literacy
d) visual literacy
Ques. 3As he is learning English, 7-year-old Sergei often makes grammatical mistakes such as saying my dog brown instead of My brown dog. Sergei is having difficulty with the:
a) phonological system
b) syntactic system
c) semantic system
d) pragmatic system
Ques. 4When the teacher gave students time to write in their journals, 8-year-old Mei struggled with spelling. Instead of becoming discouraged, however, she sought help from the teacher, used the class Word Wall, and learned to use spell check features on the computer. This attitude shows that Mei achieved:
a) reading fluency
b) self-efficacy
c) prosody
d) morphology
Ques. 5Research suggests that during language arts instruction, children are more highly motivated to participate when they:
a) engage in whole-group instruction
b) successfully complete worksheets
c) have frequent tests and quizzes
d) have opportunities to select their own books
Ques. 6Although the classroom community evolves during the school year, effective teachers lay the foundation:
a) during the first 2 weeks of instruction
b) in periodic newsletters
c) only after meeting with parents
d) through summer online conversations
Ques. 7In the word unopened, un is an example of a:
a) free morpheme
b) bound morpheme
c) suffix
d) cognate
Ques. 8Although Emily conversed comfortably with peers and with older adults, she struggled when presenting oral reports in class. Emily had not yet developed:
a) alphabetic principles
b) communicative competence
c) metacognition
d) proximal development
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