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A pre-kindergarten teacher could best promote the development of students' listening skills by: |
integrating specific listening activities as a routine element in the daily schedule. |
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By clapping syllables of words in simple sentences for English language learners you are providing support and focus on which skill? |
Phonological awareness |
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Pronounce the sound of a letter and ask students to identify the letter by the sound: |
Alphabetic Principle |
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A child draws a picture of a dog and the letters: "ENREE". She tells the teacher, "It says, 'This is my puppy Oscar.'", demonstrating she has an understanding that: |
Print Carries Meaning |
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Literature Circles |
Place students into small groups based on their book choices, having them meet periodically. The teacher will facilitate each group's meetings, where as the students decide the reading selections and discussion topics. |
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Which action best fosters a students' independent use of reading strategies? |
Modeling the process of using the surrounding text to determine the meaning of the word. "Context Clues" |
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To best assess a student's accuracy and rate of reading, a teacher should have the student: |
Read a passage out loud for one minute while the teacher records miscues. |
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Having students make a chart of predictions about a story before reading it; and then referring back to the chart to confirm or change their predictions illistrates what primary instructional purpose? |
Make inferences to aid in comprehension |
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A collection of journal entries from a crew member who accompanied Christopher Columbus on his first voyage to the New World are examples of: |
Narrative Text |
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Using cards with the words "he", "she", "sees", "loves", "has", "the", "a", "dog","cat", "pail"; and asking students to arrange the cards to make a statement accomplishes what two goals? |
1. Promote students' reading development by reinforcing word-recognition skills
2. Building their understanding of basic syntactic structures |
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How can you increase a student's ability to support their textual interpretations? |
Have them write a 1-3 sentence quotation from a book they're reading that best describes the character they like most. Then explain why the character is their favorite and how the quote reflects the character. |
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How would you adapt the previous activity for a student with dyslexia? |
Have the student dictate his letter to a scribe and then respond to the letter orally in a one-on-one conference. |
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What unit of measure is used when finding girth, G, of a box, which is related to the distances around a box by the formula G = 2(w+h) |
CM |
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Which civilization is most closely associated with the systematic study of geometry and the development of mathematical proofs? |
Greek |
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What concept should students be familiar with before learning the characteristics of limited and unlimited governments? |
The purpose of laws |
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What political success did Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th president, accomplish during his tenure in Congress (1937-1961)? |
Mustering congressional support for rural electrification, the space program and civil rights legislation. |
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What technology had the greatest impact on the geography of agriculture in the U.S. Great Plains? |
The Steel Plow |
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Why would a citizen not be protected by the First Amendment if he yells "fire" in a crowded room where there is no fire? |
No right is absolute, especially when weighing and individual's rights against the rights of a larger group. |
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How can you foster student's critical thinking when studying igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks? |
Have students classify rock samples as igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic. |
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What characteristic best demonstrates the differences between Biofuels and and fossil fuels? |
Biofuels are renewable resources |
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A hammer is an example of what simple machine?
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A lever |
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When propane C3H8, burns in air, it produces which gas? |
Carbon dioxide |
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Teaching a lesson on the properties of sound describe the sound of a passenger jet plane in flight, observing that the sound seems to come from a point several plane lengths behind the jet. This example best demonstrates what about the speed of sound? |
It is significantly slower than the speed of light |
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What energy transformation occurs when gasoline is ignited in the cylinder of a car? |
Chemical energy is converted to thermal energy |
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What is the function of the human skeletal system? |
It provides a rigid framework that supports and protects organs and the body. |
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A snake slithering across the ground is an example of what type of instinct and trait? |
Purely instinctive inherited trait. |
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The day after a cold front passes, an area is most likely to experience: |
lower temperatures |
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When using a model of the solar system to demonstrate the seasons what feature should you focus on? |
The tilt of the Earth's rotational axis. |
