PECT PreK-4 Study Guide Module 2 with Complete Solutions!

A teacher is planning to promote four-year-olds' development of skills related to Pennsylvania's PreK-4 learning standard about reading, analyzing and interpreting text. With children at this developmental level, which of the following approaches to a read-aloud activity would be most appropriate for the teacher to use to develop the children's conceptual understanding of fact and opinion? - ANSWER-helping the children tell one thing they learned from a nonfiction text A fourth-grade teacher would like to promote reluctant readers' independent reading. Which of the following teacher strategies is likely to be most effective in achieving this goal? - ANSWER-engaging students in discussions about their interests and working with the library media specialist to locate appropriate-level books on these topics A third-grade teacher regularly models for students how to paraphrase a portion of a text and how to pose and respond to questions that clarify or follow up on information presented in a text. These practices promote students' literacy development primarily by: - ANSWER-promoting their development of self-monitoring skills that support reading and learning across curriculum A first-grade teacher explains that he is going to read aloud and he wants students to consider how the story makes them feel. Afterward, he prompts the students to recall and discuss specific words and phrases the author used to evoke particular feelings. This oral language activity supports students' literacy development primarily by helping the students: - ANSWER-develop an awareness of a story's tone A kindergarten teacher has placed many signs around the classroom, including simple written directions (e.g., Please hang up coats!) and labels for objects (e.g., clock, teacher's chair). During daily activities, the teacher regularly points to and reads aloud relevant signs. The teacher has also created a classroom library filled with age-appropriate books and has incorporated relevant signs and books into all the learning centers. These strategies are most effective in addressing which of the following goals related to effective instruction in emergent literacy? - ANSWER-creating a print-rich environment