Deck 11: Approaches to Teaching Reading

Question 1

Which of the following approaches to teaching reading is most popular?

A) literature-based
B) language-experience
C) reading workshop
D) basal/anthology

Answer 1

basal/anthology

Question 2

Which of the following statements about basals is true?

A) Basals have changed little over the past two decades.
B) Basals are bigger and better than ever.
C) Basals rarely show how reading and writing are connected.
D) Basals do not provide for individual levels of reading ability beyond the first grade.

Answer 2

Basals are bigger and better than ever.

Question 3

The main advantage of text sets is that

A) students choose favorite topics and create their own reading lists, at their own levels.
B) they make connections and allow for comparing and contrasting.
C) the whole class has a common reading experience.
D) less time is spent reading in class so more time is available for discussion.

Answer 3

they make connections and allow for comparing and contrasting.

Question 4

The main advantage of thematic units is that they

A) incorporate a naturalistic, organic view of literacy learning based on everyday life.
B) group students appropriately for instruction based on students?abilities, not subject areas.
C) allow teachers to draw language and literary understandings from the children, without speaking for them.
D) help students build connections among reading, writing, listening, speaking, and viewing.

Question 5

Which of the following approaches would most likely best meet the needs of poor readers as well as gifted readers?

A) reading workshop
B) core language
C) literature-based
D) basal/anthology

Question 6

Which of the following provides the most direction for teachers?

A) core literature
B) thematic units
C) basal/literature anthology
D) reading workshop

Question 7

Which of the following approaches is based on allowing students to choose their own books and read at their own pace?

A) language-experience
B) reading workshop
C) basal/anthology
D) literature-based

Question 8

When writing individual language-experience stories, it is recommended that the teacher

A) write exactly what the child says, even if there is a grammatical error.
B) phonetically respell the child?s mispronunciations.
C) change only the child?s grammatical errors.
D) make changes wherever necessary to make the pieces readable.

Question 9

The organizational pattern of basals shortchanges below-level readers because it __________.

A) provides less reading material on their level
B) features themes that have little appeal to struggling readers
C) lacks an adequate scope an sequence of skills
D) seriously underestimates their abilities

Question 10

Which of the following approaches works very well as a beginning reading method, tends to be less effective as students become more advanced, and therefore is best used with other methods?

A) basal/anthology approach
B) literature-based approach
C) reading workshop
D) language-experience approach

Question 11

Which of the following approaches is based primarily on instructing small groups of students at their own level?

A) core literature
B) guided reading
C) language-experience
D) reading workshop

Question 12

According to past and recent research, which overall approach to teaching reading is most effective?

A) basal/anthology
B) individualized reading/ reading workshop
C) language-experience
D) No clearly superior approach has been identified.

Question 13

What approach to teaching reading would you most likely adopt as your primary method? Why? What secondary approach might you combine with this?

Question 14

What is the basal/anthology program?

Question 15

What are the specific advantages and disadvantages of the basal/anthology approach?

Question 16

How are thematic units used in the literature-based approach? What are the steps needed to create thematic units?

Question 17

What three major elements are involved in setting up a reading workshop program?

Question 18

What three basic organizational conditions must be met in a classroom in order to have an effective, smooth-running reading workshop program?

Question 19

What are some ways in which the language-experience approach can be used?

Question 20

How might a guided reading program be organized?

Question 21

How are all children grouped and occupied within the classroom during guided reading sessions? What is the main advantage and disadvantage of guided reading?

Question 22

What are the benefits of an integrated approach to teaching reading?