Imagine you are a fifth-grade teacher. Many of the students in your class are visual learners. Identify and describe at least three ways you can assist your students in learning new vocabulary.
What will be an ideal response?
Ques. 2Justify the practice of explicit teaching of vocabulary, and describe at least three ways a teacher of intermediate-grade students can teach and reinforce vocabulary.
What will be an ideal response?
Ques. 3Teachers can do a great deal to assist students' vocabulary development. Identify and discuss at least three factors that should be incorporated into sound vocabulary instruction.
What will be an ideal response?
Ques. 4A parent wants to help his child at home in vocabulary development. Identify and describe at least two activities to encourage out-of-school student vocabulary development.
What will be an ideal response?
Ques. 5What is the vocabulary used by students in simple daily interactions?
A) general vocabulary
B) content-specific vocabulary
C) academic vocabulary
D) instructional vocabulary
Ques. 6Factors contributing to children's vocabulary development include all of the following except ________.
A) language in the home
B) knowledge of English vocabulary
C) verbal exchanges between children and adults
D) building vocabulary through dictionary use
Ques. 7Mrs. Jones has her students think of the superordinate category to which a word belongs, give several defining attributes and some examples, and then draw the term. This is a ________.
A) concept of definition map
B) vocabulary notebook
C) Cloze procedure
D) rate your knowledge chart