Research indicates thst primary-grade teachers do not provide students with adequate practice in ...

Answer to #1

TRUE

Answer to #2

FALSE

Answer to #3

TRUE

Answer to #4

FALSE

Answer to #5

Answer: Reading comprehension activities need to promote a student's reading for meaning. The activities a teacher employs require the student to recall prior knowledge, make support, revise predictions, summarize, and apply new knowledge to other texts. Activities suggested in the text to promote comprehension include directed listening thinking activities (DLTA), directed reading thinking activities (DRTA), story/content impressions, retellings, story mapping, and predict-o-grams. All texts used during these activities need to be at the students' instructional reading level.

Answer to #6

Answer: Have them engage in read and retells. Read and retells promote the accurate recall of important elements in a story and the sequential nature of stories. Review basic story elements with students using a familiar story and a chart that names the key story elements. Model a retelling of a story familiar to the students referring to the chart. Then have the student read a different story and have them retell the story individually or in small groups.

Answer to #7

Answer: Providing students with supportive activities that promote writing fluency allows children to develop their writing skills and fosters confidence in writing. Activities that promote writing fluency include but are not limited to talking thoughts, expanding talk, draw write, pattern writing, story/poem maps, sentence for sentence, word walls, give me five, and modeling invented spelling.

Answer to #8

Answer: Consonant digraphs: two consonant letters that represent one sound that is different from either consonant sound (ch, gh, ph, sh, th, wh)
Consonant blends (Clusters): Two or more consonant letters whose sounds are blended together (s + t = st)
Vowel diphthongs: Two vowel letters whose sounds are blended together (oi as in boil, oy as in toy, ou as in shout, ow as in cow)
Vowel digraphs: Two vowel letters that represent one vowel sound (ai as in paid, ay as in say, eat as in meat, ee as in meet, oa as in boat, ow as in grown, ew as in new)

Answer to #9

D

Answer to #10

Answer: Phonics, spelling, and sight vocabulary: if we do not recognize enough of the words in a text, we cannot understand or appreciate fully what the author of the text has written.