Exam 10: Development in the Academic Domains

Charlize has excellent phonological awareness and word recognition skills, but she often struggles to understand and remember what she reads. Three of the following strategies are consistent with recommendations for promoting reading comprehension. Which one is not recommended?

Imagine that you are a high school counselor. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson meet with you to express their concern that their 15-year-old son Jeremy has poor handwriting. "His writing used to be neat and easy to read," Mr. Johnson says. "Now he writes so quickly that we often don't know what he's written." "Sometimes even he can't read what he wrote," Mrs. Johnson adds. Based on what the Johnsons have told you, what might you most reasonably suspect?

Niesha is able to sing a recognizable tune. You can reasonably guess that Niesha is at least:

Four-year-old Rosemary picks up a picture book and pretends to read it to one of her preschool classmates. "Once upon a time," she says, "there was a fairy princess. She was very beautiful. A handsome prince asked her to marry him. They lived happily ever after. The end." Which one of the following is the most reasonable interpretation of Rosemary's behavior?

Which one of the following writing assignments for young writers is most likely to promote an awareness of one's audience?

Eight-year-old Gregory says that the light inside a light bulb is "really shiny stuff that's kind of slimy and clings to the wires in the bulb." Gregory's description of light reflects his use of _______, which is quite common in children and adolescents.

As a result of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, all 50 states now have standards for reading, mathematics, and science. First, consider which content areas, if any, should be subject to state standards. In your answer, address not only reading, math, and science, but also the other content areas discussed in Chapter 10. Should new standards be developed, or current standards dropped? Then, consider whether there should be national standards for any or all of these content areas. In several paragraphs, justify your decision with evidence from Chapter 10. Be sure to discuss the evidence relative to the specific content areas. Developmental Trends Table The table below describes the behaviors of children and adolescents at five different age levels, identifies later knowledge and skills that might build on their behaviors, and offers implications for adults working with each age group. Apply what you've learned about development in the content domains to fill in the empty cells in the table. Identifying Building Blocks for Later Acquisitions in the Academic Domains

Three of the following high school teachers are using strategies consistent with the textbook's recommendations for teaching history. Which strategy is least likely to be beneficial?

A faculty committee is revising the goals for the school district's reading curriculum. Three of the following goals are developmentally appropriate. Which one is not?

In three paragraphs, explain how youngsters' metacognitive development plays a role in three of the following content areas: Reading Writing Learning mathematics Learning science

Three of the following adolescents are using metacognitive strategies that should enhance their reading comprehension. Which one is not necessarily using a metacognitive strategy that might improve his or her comprehension?

Three of the following statements are consistent with commonly observed sources of diversity in children's and adolescents' writing. Which statement is false?

Which one of the following metacognitive skills related to writing poses the greatest challenge for adolescents?

Young children sometimes pretend to write "grocery lists," restaurant "menus," and doctors' "prescriptions" in their sociodramatic play. Parents and preschool teachers are apt to see three of the following characteristics in such pseudowriting. Which one are they least likely to see?

Many children from low-income homes have considerable exposure to books and other printed matter long before they begin school. Some, however, do not, and so they come to school with few of the "basics" (knowledge of alphabet letters, familiarity with common storylines, etc.) upon which to build as they learn to read. As these children progress through the school grades, they are most likely to:

Three of the following teachers are providing scaffolding for students who are conducting science experiments. Which one is not necessarily providing scaffolding?

Which one of the following statements is most accurate about a typical 5-year-old child's understanding of numbers and/or counting?

Robbie Case's theory that children acquire a central conceptual structure for numbers can best help you explain which one of the following?

Mr. Simon is curious about the experiences the children in his preschool class have had with printed materials. Three of the following behaviors will give Mr. Simon useful information about the children's emergent literacy skills. Which behavior is least likely to yield useful information?

Regarding content area standards, the textbook authors raise the concern that existing standards: