A child who has a good concept of books will do? - Answers Know what the book is for and how it is
used.
This version of a children's book provides an opportunity for all children in the group to actively
engage in learning about concepts about books, print, and the meaning of text. - Answers Big books
Which term describes the ability to read or listen to and understand text? - Answers Comprehension
What characteristics will help determine how well a student will comprehend text? - Answers
Familiarity, syntactic complexity
What term describes one's own awareness of how his or her learning is taking place? - Answers
Metacognition
Teaching comprehension strategies has been found most effective when using the what sequence of
steps: - Answers Explanation, modeling, guided practice,independent application,reflection.
Which term describes when students browse through a book before reading it by looking at the
pictures, discussing them, and making predictions? - Answers Book walk
According to the text, which graphic organizer is used mostly with expository text in which students
use prior knowledge to determine what they want to know after reading? - Answers K-W-L
In this strategy, students are formed into groups to discuss the books. Each student is assigned a
particular role in the group to help keep them focused on the book and the task - Answers Literature
Circles. The jobs given are discussion director, word finder, illustrator, creative connector and
summarizer
Mr. Tallentire teaches second grade. His entire class is reading a passage aloud together along with
him. While reading, he models pace and expression. Which strategy is Mr. Tallentire using? - Answers
Echo reading
Miss Barron is talking to you about her second-grade struggling readers. She tells you they are not
fluent but she is not worried as long as they can eventually sound out all the words. Given what you
know about the relationship between fluency and comprehension, how would you respond? -
Answers Students need to recognize words automatically and become fluent readers so they can
focus their attention on meaning.
Reading comprehension is an active process where readers use multiple strategies to construct
meaning of text. Therefore, which of the following is an effective way to teach comprehension
strategies? - Answers Children are actively engaged in learning
* Children are talking- to each other to themselves as they interact with the written word.
* Children are actively questioning, inferring, and discussing throughout the day
*Children are engaged in many reading and thinking activities
Know how to best describe comprehension - Answers the action or capability of understanding
something.
Early writing development is characterized by children's moving through which phases? - Answers
moving from playful marks on paper to communicating messages on paper. Once children begin to
understand that the marks they make can be meaningful and fun to produce , they are determined to
learn how to write.
Think about the relationship between reading and writing. How does writing help reading? - Answers
Children's main resource for literacy learning in their knowledge of ways to symbolize experience and
to communicate through those symbols.
When children create their own spellings for words, they are using__________________? - Answers
Invented spelling
___________________ is a period of time set aside for writing instruction, in which the teacher
provides a mini-lesson that models a writing skill, a time for independent writing, and a time for
students to share their work with each other? - Answers Writing Workshop
This type of writing serves a clear, real-life purpose, including greeting cards, thank
you notes, and grocery lists. - Answers Environmental Print
In this strategy, writing is a joint effort as the teacher and the children create writing together. The
teacher guides the lesson and writes on large chart paper in a whole-group or small-group setting. -
Answers Interactive writing
This type of journal writing is similar to a conversation in which students are able to write about any
topic and share their writing with teachers or peers. - Answers Dialogue journal