Justify the practice of teaching, modeling, and stimulating vocabulary, and describe at least three general approaches to supporting children's academic vocabularies.
What will be an ideal response?
Ques. 2Many English learner students have developed proficiency with conversational language, yet they lack the ________ they need for the content learning that is the heart of the intermediate and middle grades.
A) self-confidence
B) depth of vocabulary
C) writing ability
D) public speaking skill
Ques. 3Text talk, vocab-o-gram, story impressions, and the like are methods that help teachers ________.
A) introduce new vocabulary
B) pre-think a story
C) improve study skills
D) formally assess students' vocabulary
Ques. 4What procedure is illustrated below? The octopus protects itself by ________ out dark clouds of ink shaped just like the ________. The ink even smells ________ an octopus. When the ________ chases the cloud of ________, the real octopus swims ________ away. (words to insert in the blanks: safely, predator, ink, squirting, octopus, like)
A) a metacognitive assessment
B) a vocab-o-gram
C) the cloze procedure
D) the think-pair-share
Ques. 5Which of the following is an example of a primary teacher using explicit instruction?
A) The word photosynthesis has a Greek root: photo.
B) If you don't know the word, look it up in the dictionary.
C) Look at the parts of the word cowboy. Do you see 'cow and boy?
D) Can you read this new word on the flashcard? It is bioluminescent.
Ques. 6English learners should be discouraged from using dictionaries in their native language as this practice prevents them from bridging to English.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Ques. 7Using the dictionary to look up and write the definitions of unfamiliar words is an effective use of the dictionary.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Ques. 8Vocabulary instruction in the middle grades would be largely unnecessary if students used the dictionary more.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
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