These characteristics should be used in evaluating textbooks and texts...
What are:
Text organization;
Audience appropriateness;
Coherence;
Explicitness of main ideas.
100
This many vocabulary words should be taught each week to students.
What is seven to ten words a week?
100
This type of context clue can be used to determine the meaning of “gregarious” in this sentence? “The husband and wife were very different. Al was reserved and shy but Sophie was very gregarious.”
What is Contrast?
100
Learning prefixes are easier than learning suffixes because
What is prefixes generally have clearer meanings than suffixes;
prefixes are spelled more regularly than suffixes;
prefixes are shorter than suffixes.
100
The SLANT strategy is an acronym for:
What is
1.Sit up.
2.Lean forward.
3.Activate your thinking.
4.Name key information.
5.Track the talker.
200
List prelearning activities or content enhancement devices that can be used with students.
The words that reader recognizes in listening and uses in speaking
What is oral vocabulary?
200
In the following sentence, this type of context clue allows the reader to understand the word “amiable”.
“Lucy was very friendly. In fact, she was so amiable that she had more friends than she could count.”
What is a Synonym?
200
This type of morpheme: “re” in the word “replace”
What is Bound?
200
The SLANT strategy is intended to improve:
What is classroom participation?
300
An activity teachers can use to orient students to the material before reading or class presentation.
What is an advance organizer?
300
Two approaches for teaching vocabulary
What are indirect and direct approaches?
300
The use of contextual analysis and morphemic analysis are considered...
What are word-learning strategies?
300
Describe the types of morphemes that are in the word unsuccessful.
What are one prefix, one free morpheme and one suffix?
300
SQ3R is a technique for:
What is learning information from text?
400
All of the following are recommended ways to adapt textbooks except:
A) using a published study guide.
B) creating a study guide for the text that is being used.
C) highlighting the important information in the text for the student.
D) rewriting the text so that the sentences are shorter and easier to read.
E) audiotaping textbook chapters.
What is D) rewriting the text so that the sentences are shorter and easier to read?
400
Words that students will encounter in a variety of context, and words that will assist students in understanding a particular text are called...
What are high utility words ?
400
Selecting the vocabulary and concepts to teach depends on...
What are:
the teacher’s expertise in the content area;
the teacher’s knowledge of the structure of the textbook information and framework;
the students’ reading ability;
the students’ background and vocabulary knowledge.
400
The following is a recommended practice for teaching affixes (morphemic analysis)...
What is only 1 or 2 prefixes or suffixes should be introduced at a time?
400
A study skill called SQ3R has the following five steps:
What is:
Survey, Question, Read, Recite, and Review?
500
Research has found all of the following to be true about adaptations except:
A) High achieving students resent students who are able to receive adaptations.
B) Secondary students with learning disabilities prefer to take the same tests as their peers.
C) Adaptations often slow down instruction.
What is: A) high achieving students resent students who are able to receive adaptations?
500
The most important consideration in selecting words for vocabulary instruction is to choose words that...
What is have a high impact on learning and instruction?
500
Content enhancements are techniques to help students...
What are:
in identifying salient information;
organizing information;
comprehending content information.
500
BONUS QUESTION: __________ __________ plays a critical role in determining how effective students will comprehend and retain any information and vocabulary presented?
What is background knowledge?
500
Expression skills are study skills that include all of the following except:
A) memory.
B) time management skills.
C) retrieval.
D) test-taking skills.
E) oral and written expression skills that are used to demonstrate understanding and application of knowledge.