The teacher prepares a large picture or poster of the theme of the unit (i.e., a picture of a skeleton for a unit on the human body system). Then the students are invited to brainstorm words they think they will encounter as they learn about the topic. The teacher or students write those words and put them on cards around the large picture or poster. This is called a ________.
A) vocabulary field trip
B) rate your knowledge chart
C) word wall
D) concept of definition map
Ques. 2What strategy would use these instructions? Directions: All of the following words are from this story. See if you can predict how they are used. If you think the word describes a character, then put it in that box; if you think it is about the setting, write it in that box. If one word doesn't fit, there is a box for those words. Finally, see if you can make a prediction about the story, and write it in the bottom box.
A) predicting ABCs
B) prethinking a story
C) story impression
D) vocab-o-gram
Ques. 3English learners benefit from activities to build vocabulary, such as ________.
A) vocabulary drills
B) audio and video recorded books
C) correction of vocabulary errors
D) teacher demonstration
Ques. 4What tier-level words (Beck, McKeown, and Kucen, 2002) should a teacher highlight in classroom instruction to increase a students' receptive and expressive vocabulary?
A) tier one words
B) tier two words
C) tier three words
D) tier four words
Ques. 5A good tool to check students' familiarity with terms is a concept clustering activity.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Ques. 6About how many words do school-aged students add to their reading vocabularies annually?
A) 1,000
B) 3,000
C) 10,000
D) 30,000
Ques. 7Vocabulary specific to particular contexts or content areas is ________.
A) academic vocabulary
B) receptive vocabulary
C) general vocabulary
D) common instructional vocabulary
Ques. 8You are a fifth-grade teacher. Imagine a student in your classroom who needs to develop good listening behaviors. How would you determine the needs of the student? Describe at least three activities to improve the student's listening. When reporting to the parents, what information regarding the student's listening behaviors would you include in your report?
What will be an ideal response?
Ques. 9Describe at least two activities to foster a student's use of language to inform others for each of the following levels: the primary grades and the upper elementary or middle grades.
What will be an ideal response?
Ques. 10Choose a nursery rhyme to use as a choral reading activity with primary students. Decide how you will orchestrate it. Create a detailed lesson plan designed to foster speaking or listening skills.
What will be an ideal response?
Ques. 11Justify the practice of creating and maintaining safe classroom environments for students' language exploration and growth, and describe at least three activities (partner or small group) a teacher of English language learners can use to reinforce student language growth.
What will be an ideal response?
Ques. 12Describe at least three activities that promote oral language in the primary grades.
What will be an ideal response?
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