QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH REAL
SOLUTIONS
, *Kids getting ready to read a story about a pilot. What should the teacher have the
students
do? - ANSWERbuild on their knowledge / discuss obstacles female pilots can face.
*comprehension passage about zoo animals (4 parts)
1. who was the animal that the other animals not welcome/like
2. teacher asked why didn't the other animals like the giraffe
3. teacher asked explicit questions - ANSWER1. literal comprehension, students
answered giraffe
2. students supported the answer with text evidence
3. The student was using evidence from the passage to clear up information/using text
to clarify by referencing the story "in the story it says he..."
*responsibility question - ANSWERmultiple exposures/ repeated experience
*endothermic/exothermic passage about mammals and reptiles (2/3 parts)
1. teacher assists student about exothermic meaning
2. all endotherms are mammals
3. nonrestrictive clauses - ANSWER1. suffixes
2. literal comprehension information
3. ALL mammals are endo
*A fifth-grade teacher provides her students with an easier science article with easier
vocabulary about the topic of asteroids before reading from the actual science textbook.
What is the teacher
trying to achieve? - ANSWERpre-teaching, preloading information to familiarize
students with content and vocabulary
EL question about students getting ready to answer text - ANSWERstudents getting
ready to talk about what they see in the illustrations or drawings
6th grade is having a hard time in the book club - ANSWERteacher assigns them
something to orally talk about from the book / teacher assists them
EL student having hard time writing notes on US history - ANSWERfind out the students
background knowledge on chapter/subject
Matthew effect - ANSWERindicates that the gap between high achieving and low
achieving readers widen over time.
*skimming learning with practice scanning - ANSWERpurpose of preview and review
and scanning is looking for specific information