Question 1

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

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

Question 2

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

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Student answers will vary. The language-experience approach can be used in a number of areas, including these:
1 In personalizing group stories (gathering pieces of stories, identifying the names of contributors, and allowing students to read their selections to encourage ownership)
2 In an individual approach (may start by describing a drawing or photo, then move on to dictating a story to the teacher)
3 With English Language Learners (using the child's native language and allowing the child to draw on his or her experiences, words are taken down verbatim to honor the childʹs speech and thoughts)
4 Because the language experience approach is based on students' individual backgrounds, it allows each student to share her or his culture, experience, and mode of self-expression. The approach has the power to promote understanding and community among students. .
5 In content areas (summarizing main concepts and events, clarifying complex topics as children advance into more difficult reading materials). Can be used to summarize what students have learned that day.
6 With technology (using interactive whiteboards, digital photos, clip art, scanned drawings, etc.)
7 In other ways (I compose booklets on science and social studies topics, thank-you notes to a visiting author, a letter to a classmate who is hospitalized, an invitation to a guest speaker, recipes, a set of directions for the computer class rules, charts, lists, captions, diaries, booklets, plays)
8 Can be used as part of shared reading to introduce and reinforce key reading skills.

Question 3

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

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Several conditions should be met for an effective workshop:
1 Teachers must be able to hold conferences with students without interruptions.
2 Students must be able to work on their own without disturbing others.
3 Students must be responsible for choosing books on their own and reading them.

Question 4

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

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Question 5

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

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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 6

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

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

Question 7

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

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

Question 8

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

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Question 9

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

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Question 10

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

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Question 11

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?

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

Question 12

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

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Question 13

Which of the following provides the most direction for teachers?

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

Question 14

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

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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 15

Which of the following statements about basals is true?

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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.

Question 16

How might a guided reading program be organized?

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Question 17

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

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

Question 18

The main advantage of thematic units is that they

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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 19

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

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

Question 20

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

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Exam 11: Approaches to Teaching Reading