You Are a First­grade Teacher and Notice Your Students Are

Multiple Choice

You are a first­grade teacher and notice your students are having trouble remembering how to spell words for their spelling lists and seem to keep forgetting the key terms in your social studies unit on the community. What should you do?

A) Do not spend too much time worrying about this because children at this age do not have very good memories.
B) Spend some time teaching the students memory strategies such as rehearsal and organization, as these will improve their memory performance.
C) Get some testing for the children, since they should be remembering these types of items by this age.
D) Wait until they shift to the concrete operational stage when they will remember better.