answered graded A+
What is the underlying rationale for creating standards? - correct answer ✔✔Higher learning
expectations will lead to increased student achievement.
Why is every teacher considered a "teacher of reading?" - correct answer ✔✔Every teacher
should support a students' ability to effectively comprehend any type of text.
Readers who struggle with comprehension ________. - correct answer ✔✔use only one
comprehension strategy.
Reading to Learn - correct answer ✔✔The ability to use reading, writing, talking, listening, and
viewing to learn subject matter in a given discipline.
Differentiated Instruction - correct answer ✔✔Responsive teaching that involves preparing
instruction for a variety of student needs to maximize instruction.
New Literacies - correct answer ✔✔Forms of communication that are print, digital, aural, or
visual in nature.
Teacher Effectiveness - correct answer ✔✔The cause of students' growth of at least one grade
level in an academic year.
Standards - correct answer ✔✔Expected academic consequences defining what students should
learn at designated grade levels.
Content and Process - correct answer ✔✔The how and what of instruction.
,Choose one strategy used by good readers and explain how the strategy improves reading
comprehension. - correct answer ✔✔A strategy used by good readers is "make predictions
about what is to come". This strategy can improve reading comprehension because the reader
needs to use the prior knowledge they have read in the text to predict what is going to happen
next. This helps readers think ahead and ask questions while reading.
New Literacies - correct answer ✔✔A different mindset for approaching reading and writing.
WebQuests - correct answer ✔✔Teacher-created web pages combining learning tasks and
activities that require students to use Internet resources to complete them.
Netiquette - correct answer ✔✔Social rules of network communication
Blogs - correct answer ✔✔Online journals and diaries.
Blended Learning - correct answer ✔✔A classroom environment that incorporates online and
face to face learning opportunities.
Wikis - correct answer ✔✔Collaboratively built text in which volunteers contribute facts and
help edit and shape the presentation of information.
Which of the following statements about a "flipped classroom" is correct? - correct answer
✔✔They blend online and face to face learning opportunities.
A Google drive is an example of a(n) ________. - correct answer ✔✔shared document space.
Which of the following lenses helps students to determine if the author of the online material
has an agenda? - correct answer ✔✔Bias
, Explain how computer-assisted technologies have changed over the years. What factors need to
be considered if teachers are to guide students in using continually changing technology? -
correct answer ✔✔Over the years computer-assisted technologies have changed greatly. The
earliest technology we have seen is clay tablets and scrolls. We have transitioned to paper and
pencil, watching informational movies on the projector (from a VHS tape), dry erase boards, and
now we have laptops for each student and big TV's in the classroom. If teachers are going to
guide students in using continually changing technology they need to consider that students are
going to use this knowledge for the rest of their lives. In the future these students will get jobs
that using technology is required and they need to know how to keep up with technology.
Sheltered Instruction - correct answer ✔✔Uses a variety of instructional aids to help students
"see" challenging content visually.
Bilingual Programs - correct answer ✔✔Programs designed to teach English and to provide
instruction in the core curriculum using the home language of the English learner.
Funds of Knowledge - correct answer ✔✔Provides a framework to recognize a student's
interests and background knowledge that he/she brings to learning experiences.
Comprehensible Input - correct answer ✔✔Language that supports the needs of nonnative
speakers by making content learning understandable through the use of simplified language.
Cognates - correct answer ✔✔Words that are culturally and linguistically related in both the
nonnative speaker's language and in English
EL Programs - correct answer ✔✔Programs for English learners in which all the subject areas
are taught entirely in English; English instruction ins typically separate from content area
instruction.