Exam 1: Becoming an Effective Literacy Teacher

Shared writing differs from modeling because in shared writing:

The Common Core State Standards include a strand on Informational Texts because:

Katia, an eight-year-old student who is an English learner, was reluctant to raise her hand to participate in whole class discussions. Her teacher was correctly advised to help Katia expand her vocabulary and gain confidence in speaking by:

Teachers use informal assessment tools to monitor daily progress. List and describe three types of informal assessment tools that an elementary classroom teacher could use.

A fifth grade teacher would like to ensure that she is scaffolding her English Learners' oral language acquisition and literacy development. List and describe five ways that she can accomplish this.

The Common Core State Standards are organized into:

Tommy, an eight-year-old struggling reader, attended a school with a highly phonetic instructional reading program. When his family moved to another state, he transferred to a school that implemented a balanced literacy program. Why is balanced literacy an appropriate instructional approach for struggling readers?

Teachers can serve as a model of fluent reading by:

Jason could not read the Harry Potter books independently but his reading tutor found that he could easily discuss and enjoy these books if she helped him with the more difficult vocabulary and guided his comprehension. For Jason, the task of reading the Harry Potter books were:

Wendy's mother taught her a few basic crochet stitches when she was eight years old. As she got older, Wendy was able to learn additional crochet stitches in process of:

Students usually have more opportunities to work independently, select their reading material, set personal schedules, and collaborate with classmates when they participate in:

As a new sixth grade teacher was selecting books for his classroom library, an experienced teacher correctly advised him that students within a typical classroom:

Students usually feel comfortable, safe, and more willing to take risks when:

John McFadden has just graduated from college and will begin his first year as a teacher in September. Experienced educators have correctly told him that teachers experience the most success when they:

Effective teachers use formal and informal assessment measures primarily to:

Theorists such as Piaget explained that students' knowledge is organized into cognitive structures or files in mental filing cabinets known as:

The word bookcases contains:

Six-year-old Carmen is learning to speak English and often makes statements such as "I have a pen blue" instead of "I have a blue pen." That type of error shows that Carmen is having difficulty with the:

Theorist such as Louise Rosenblatt have explained that students don't try to figure out the author's meaning as they read; instead, they negotiate a meaning that makes sense to them based on the words they are reading and their existing knowledge. The work of these theorists reflects:

The zone of proximal development is: