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A new kindergarten classroom teacher has concerns about a student's "at-risk" scores on the developmental screening of emergent literacy skills. Which of the following steps should the kindergarten teacher take first? A. Developing a plan for direct instruction to address the student's areas of need as indicated by the screening. B. Establishing what type of assessments should be administered to evaluate the extent of the student's difficulty. C. Clarify the time frame for notifying the parents/guardians of the teacher's academic concerns. D. Conferring with the student's previous teacher to determine whether this pattern of decline was exhibited last year. - ANSWER-A. Developing a plan for direct instruction to address the student's areas of need as indicated by the screening. **In general, a screening provides some basic information regarding a child's strengths and needs. A teacher can take the screening information and develop a short-term plan for remediation of a students are of need. Frequent monitoring of the student's progress and identification of any additional areas of need would be beneficial. A kindergarten class includes a number of students who have little or no prior experience with books. The teacher uses various strategies to promote the students' understanding and appreciation of reading, including reading them stories aloud on a regular basis. In selecting stories to read aloud to these students, the teacher should place the greatest emphasis on identifying stories that: A. Teach the students about letters, numbers, and other elements of the kindergarten curriculum. B. Will expose the students to new ideas and points of view. C. Include characters and plots likely to be familiar to the students from their experiences outside of school. D. Will be engaging and enjoyable for the students. - ANSWER-D. Will be engaging and enjoyable for the students. **In working with young students who have little or no prior experience with books, a key teacher goal should be to promote the students' view of reading as an enjoyable and appealing activity and thereby motivate them to want to engage further with books. Therefore, in the situation described, the teacher should place most emphasis on selecting stories to read to the students that they will find engaging and enjoyable. A third-grade teacher is planning a language arts lesson to introduce students to fables. In an appropriately sequenced lesson, the teacher should begin with which of the following activities? A. Providing students with a graphic organizer and helping them fill in information from selected fables. B. Having students work in pairs to rewrite the morals of several familiar fables. C. Reading students several fables aloud and pointing out the key features that define a fable.