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A fourth grade teacher regularly has students maintain Enhancing students understanding of content area concepts through reading,
individual learning logs of their observations and writing, listening, and speaking
questions during science experiments. Students then
share and discuss their learning log entry with a partner
BEFORE the whole class meets to draw conclusions
about what they learned. This approach to fostering
student learning best demonstrates the teachers
recognition of the importance of:
A kindergarten teacher notices that some students are Focusing the students attention on letters whose sound- symbol relationships
having difficulty developing understanding of the are most consistent
alphabetic principle and letter sound correspondence.
Which of the following strategies would be most
effective to use FIRST in addressing the students
needs?
A kindergarten student has good oral language skills Limited experience with literary material
and enjoys looking at listening to and discussing
informational picture books about a range of subjects.
However, when the teacher reads aloud narrative texts,
students often seem restless and confused and is
unable to answer basic questions about the story.
Which of the following factors is most likely interfering
with this students construction of meaning?
A student has mastered six high frequency letter sound Sounding out printed CVC words letter by letter
correspondences and can segment and blend CVC
words presented orally is most likely to begin
instruction in which of the following reading skills?
, A sixth grader observes that an advanced level english The students primary language id influencing his production of English.
language learners oral reading lacks fluency. Although
the student can accurately decode the words in an
english text and has good comprehension of the
meaning if the text, he sometimes uses inappropriate
phrasing, intonation, and word stress. Which of the
following statements provides the best explanation for
this students reading behavior?
Which of the following options best exemplifies Determining an authors point of view in a social studies text about the
inferential comprehensive? consequences of industrialization
A sixth grade teacher is planning a unit on Portraying the author in appearance and personality while being interviewed
autobiography. Several students have expressed by students from other classes
disinterest in reading nonfiction. Which if the following
student activities would most likely help engage
students interest in reading an autobiography?
Read a paragraph.... The clownfish, ______ eats lichens for instance/ Similarly
that could harn the sea ____ , barracudas get their
bellies cleaned by cleaning fish who get a meal oiut of
the deal.
Which of the following sentences, if inserted as Some land animals also enjoy mutually beneficial relationships with animal or
sentence 4 in the excerpt, would best support a logical plant life
development of the central idea? What broad sentence
brings the para together?
Students in a sixth grade class are designing a Website balance
on which they will post their science research reports in
invasive species in the Great Lakes. A teacher guided
discussion of which of the following elements concepts
related to visual arts would best help students arrange
the visual elements they have chosen to use on the web
page?
Which of the following statements best describes an Major economic activities among Native American groups included agriculture
important feature of life among Native American hunting gathering and fishing.
groups in the region that is now Michigan during the
period immediately before European arrival in the
Americas?
During the past century the location of human The existence if available water supplies
settlements in most parts of North Africa and
Southwest Asia has been most Influenced by:
Which of the following statements best describes a Europeans added corn squash potatoes and cocoa to their diets
major consequence of the columbian exchange
resulting from European colonization of the Americas?
A sixth grader arranges to have students witness the The role of public discourse and debate in the lawmaking process
operation of the michigan state legislature while it is in
session. This activity will most help students understand
which of the following aspects of government?