During world language instruction, which of the following student activities would best
incorporate opportunities for students to negotiate meaning?
A. reading a text and underlining any words that are unfamiliar
B. p
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During world language instruction, which of the following student activities would best
incorporate opportunities for students to negotiate meaning?
A. reading a text and underlining any words that are unfamiliar
B. playing a game in which a word must be guessed by use of circumlocution
C. filling out a worksheet of questions that require the use of a dictionary
D. writing a short story based on a sequential set of illustrations from a picture book -
✔✔B. playing a game in which a word must be guessed by use of circumlocution
Which of the following characteristics of literacy development best illustrates the
relationship between speaking and writing?
A. printing the letters of the alphabet
B. overgeneralizing regular verb tense endings
C. using phonetic spelling
D. recognizing examples of environmental print - ✔✔C. using phonetic spelling
A second-grade teacher notices that several students regularly place adjectives after
nouns in their writing and speaking. These students most likely require explicit
instruction related to which of the following English language systems?
A. phonological
B. semantic
C. syntactic
D. pragmatic - ✔✔C. syntactic
At the beginning of the school year, a kindergarten teacher talks informally with
students' families about the kinds of prior experiences their children have had,
especially those related to learning and literacy. The teacher uses this information to
help plan dramatic play and literacy centers that reflect familiar settings, tasks, and
experiences. These actions most clearly demonstrate the teacher's awareness of the:
A. integrated nature of reading, writing, listening, and speaking.
B. interconnections between language, literacy, and culture.
C. relationship between oral language development and reading achievement.
D. links between vocabulary development and reading in the home. - ✔✔B.
interconnections between language, literacy, and culture.
As a regular component of whole-group mathematics instruction, a fifth-grade teacher
guides students in closely reading key pages from the grade-level textbook. Afterward,
in addition to guiding students in applying the new material presented in the text to
sample exercises, the teacher also helps the students summarize the text's main ideas
orally. Finally, students draft their own written summaries of the new concepts,
processes, and/or terminology in their mathematics journals. This approach to contentarea instruction promotes students' school achievement primarily in which of the
following ways?
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