EDU 331 Chapter 10-11

Whether a student's understanding of a number and of its use and meaning is flexible and fully developed refers to which of the following choices?

number sense

The words a reader recognizes or uses in print refer to:

reading vocabulary.

The term "situated cognition" refers to the principle that students:

. Learn complex concepts in the contexts in which they occur in day-to-day life.

In the following sentence, what 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."

. Synonym

When teachers use specific word instruction, they carefully select vocabulary words that are critical for understanding the text and difficult for students. Teachers might appropriately select how many of these vocabulary words each week?

7-10

What is CBM (curriculum-based measurement) for math?

A way of documenting the extent to which the student is learning the critical elements in the targeted curriculum

When teachers use the Comprehension Canopy Routine, what step do they take to begin the lesson?

Activate prior knowledge

What activity can teachers use to orient students to the material before reading the text or listening to a class presentation?

Advance organizers

Mr. Varner is an eighth-grade social studies teacher. He is teaching a unit on the Great Depression. Before the students read the text, he informs them of the purpose of learning about the Depression and provides some background information. In addition, he introduces new vocabulary and provides an overview of the unit. He is providing:

An advance organizer.

Ms. Salamon is teaching her third-grade students a geography lesson. She has several words she would like to arrange in a relationship chart. Which word should be a subordinate concept in relation to continent?

Asia

Which of the following plays a critical role in determining how effectively students will comprehend and retain any information and vocabulary presented?

Background knowledge

What type of morpheme is "re" in the word "replace"?

Bound

Content enhancements practices are techniques that help students do all of the following EXCEPT:

Brainstorm key ideas in text.

If a student is NOT succeeding with one approach or program, the teacher should:

Change the approach or program.

Students in Mr. Roskey's class were given a worksheet to identify the missing number in a sequence. Mr. Roskey told the students to do only the first problem. After they completed the first problem, they were to check it and make any necessary changes. If they thought that their answer to problem one was correct, they were to put a small check by the answer. If they thought that it was incorrect, they should mark a small "i" next to the answer. By this activity, Mr. Roskey is teaching his students to:

Check their work and monitor their errors

Mrs. Harris is a speech therapist who works with a group of kindergarten children to sort different ideas. She asks them to sort animals that swim and animals that live on land. This activity addresses which important prenumber skill?

Classification

Students with learning disabilities struggle with story problems in mathematics because story problems involve knowledge and skills they have difficulty with. These difficulties include all of the following choices EXCEPT:

Classifying.

The SLANT strategy is an acronym for:Sit up.Lean forward.Activate your thinking.Name key information.Track the talker.This strategy is intended to improve:

Classroom participation

Which one of the following instructional procedures emphasizes self-instruction and relies on the use of internalized language to facilitate the problem-solving process?

Cognitive behavior modification

Which of the following instructional procedures for teaching math facts involves: 1) presenting a student with a math fact; 2) allowing the student a specific amount of time to give a correct answer; 3) modeling the correct response if the student doesn't respond within the allotted time; and 4) having the student repeat the model?

Constant time-delay procedure

Which type of context clue can be used to determine the meaning of "gregarious" in the following sentence? "The husband and wife were very different. Al was reserved and shy but Sophie was gregarious."

Contrast

What prelearning activity visually represents the concepts and important vocabulary to be taught?

Curriculum map

Which of the following statements about readability formulas is NOT true?

Difficulty is measured by students' prior knowledge of content.

Students with math difficulties frequently display all of the following traits EXCEPT:

Difficulty operating a calculator.

All of the following choices are key features to consider in assessing text structure EXCEPT:

Do the review questions focus exclusively on main concepts?

Bobby is a third grader with learning disabilities. He is asked to write a grocery list and then predict how much a dozen eggs, a gallon of milk, and three apples would cost. He said $50.00. Bobby has poor skills in:

Estimation.

Kendra is a kindergarten student who is asked to sort food by fruits and vegetables and then asked to sort those groups by size. After that, she has to make a list of how many items are in each pile. This activity involves all of the following skills EXCEPT:

Estimation.

Eddie had a birthday party. Albert gave him two turtles. Alan gave him four dinosaurs. Matthew gave him three turtles. How many turtles did Eddie receive altogether?" Which of the following factors that can cause difficulties when solving story problems is most evident in this problem?

Extraneous information

In Mr. Swift's second grade class, a group of students is experimenting with cooking utensils such as measuring cups and spoons, egg cartons, and muffin pans. What concept is Mr. Swift most likely discussing with his students?

Fractions

The main advantage of group-administered math measures over individually administered math measures is that:

Group-administered measures take less time to administer.

The most important goal in selecting words for vocabulary instruction is to choose words that:

Have a high impact on learning and instruction.

Which of the following is NOT one of the most common factors in students' failure to complete homework?

Having a detailed plan for completing assignments at school and at home.

Which of the following choices is NOT a characteristic that should be used in evaluating textbooks and texts?

Implicitness of main ideas

What are the two main approaches to teaching vocabulary?

Indirect and direct

Which of the following is a recommended practice for morphemic analysis instruction?

Introduce only 1 or 2 prefixes or suffixes at a time.

Which of the following statements about semantic mapping is NOT true?

It requires that students know formal definitions before they begin mapping.

Many students who have learning disabilities and experience difficulty with mathematics tend to:

Lack the prerequisite skills required to understand concepts.

Mr. Kaplan shows his students a pattern of numbers "5, 10, 15, ________, 25, 30, ________" and asks them to figure out what goes in the blanks. He is assessing number sense. Mr. Kaplan is using a measure of:

Missing numbers

Mrs. Chang holds flash cards of numbers and asks kindergarten students to say the numbers when they see them. This activity provides practice in:

Number identification.

Asking students to count to 20 and count by tens are ways to measure a student's:

Number sense

These are two problems that Melissa completed as part of her homework assignment. Which concept or skill is Melissa struggling with?

Numeration

Describe the types of morphemes that are in the word unsuccessful.

One prefix, one free morpheme, and one suffix

Ms. Fleming is a preschool teacher who uses every opportunity to teach students the relationship between number words (e.g., one, two, three, four) and objects. For example, "Here are two paintbrushes: one for you and one for Madju." "There are six students in our group, and we need a book for each student." Which prenumber skill is she focusing on in these conversations?

One-to-one correspondence

The words a reader recognizes in listening and uses in speaking refer to:

Oral vocabulary

Henry often tries to stay up late to finish book reports the night before they are due. He often falls asleep and his mother has to wake him up early to finish the assignment. Even if he gets up early, he often doesn't have time to complete the work. Although he knows in advance when the assignments are due, he always waits until the last minute to start. His mom is frustrated because she encourages him to start early but he doesn't listen. He makes C's on his work but would be able to get B's or A's if he started them earlier. Henry has difficulty with which of the following study skills?

Personal development skills

Study skills can be categorized into which three areas?

Personal development skills, process skills, and expression skills

Lydia knows that the "3" in 38 represents 3 tens and the "8" represents 8 ones. She understands:

Place value

Learning prefixes is easier than learning suffixes for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

Prefixes generally have abstract meanings.

What is the purpose of semantic feature analysis?

Prelearning activity to organize concepts and vocabulary

What approach should teachers take in giving feedback to students about their math performance?

Provide immediate feedback

Individualized programming means:

Providing instruction that is designed to meet individual needs

Which of the following principles does NOT reflect the RTI model for math?

Providing intervention for all students

Which of the following choices is NOT a prenumber skill?

Quantity discrimination

Charles made the following errors on his math test. 45 - 36 = 11 75 - 47 = 38 86 - 47 = 43 What concept does he have difficulty with? *

Regrouping

Mr. Ferro is about to start a unit on the American Revolution. He has several students with learning disabilities in his class and some students who are English language learners. What is his first step he should take in getting ready to teach the chapter?

Select the major concepts and related vocabulary to be taught.

The PACT (Promoting Adolescent Comprehension through Text) project includes three strategies that improve reading comprehension and understanding of content for students in social studies. These include the following EXCEPT:

Semantic Mapping Routine.

A relationship chart is essential for which of the following activities?

Semantic feature analysis

Which of the following choices is NOT one of the deficits that can hinder math acquisition?

Sensory and motor ability (gross and fine motor skills)

Mr. Osman has his kindergarten class line up by height. The shortest children are in front and the tallest children are in back. This activity focuses on which skill?

Seriation

To practice using percentages, Ms. Romano had her students record their spending habits in an Excel spreadsheet. Each time a student bought something, they had to record the purchase under the appropriate category (e.g., food, clothes, entertainment). At the end of the month, the students needed to figure out the percentage of their spending for each of these categories. This activity is based on which principle of instruction?

Situated cognition

When a teacher reads a passage aloud to expose students to new words that may be difficult for them to read, teachers should select text at what level?

Slightly above students' reading level

"Using doubles" and "counting-on" are examples of strategies primarily designed to assist students in:

Solving basic math facts.

A study skill called SQ3R has the following five steps: Survey, Question, Read, Recite, and Review. SQ3R is a technique for:

Studying text.

According to a report by the National Research Council (2001), "strategic competence" is a part of mathematical proficiency that refers to:

The ability to formulate and conduct mathematical problems.

Ms. Hallock takes a break at certain points during her lectures and has students work as partners for about two minutes to discuss what they are learning and review their notes. At the end of the two minutes, she asks the students if they have any questions and then she resumes her lecture. She finds that this method allows students to review the information and generate questions of their own. This procedure is called:

The pause procedure.

Selection of the vocabulary and concepts to teach depends on all of the following choices EXCEPT:

The students' access to the textbook at home.

Brad is a second grader who has heard the word "economy" and knows that it has something to do with money. However, he is unable to define the word or use it in a sentence. His partial understanding of this word illustrates which characteristic of vocabulary words and vocabulary knowledge?

There are different levels of word knowledge.

According to a report by the National Research Council (2001) "adaptive reasoning" is a part of mathematical proficiency that refers to:

Thinking about, explaining and justifying mathematical work.

Expression skills are study skills that include all of the following skills EXCEPT:

Time management.

Mr. Jensen emphasizes the sequence of events that his class does during the day (e.g., "First, we have circle time, then we have reading, and then recess..." etc). He also asks students to think about which events take longer (e.g., recess or reading, lining up for lunch or math). By discussing these topics, Mr. Jensen is helping his students to understand:

Time.

Ms. Parker demonstrated how her students could predict the questions that will be asked on a test. The students can use what they know about the teacher's testing style, their class notes, their maps, and other study aids to predict questions. Two days before a test, Ms. Parker had the students work in cooperative groups and write what they thought would be the most important questions on the test and then answer them. What was the main purpose of Ms. Parker's instruction?

To practice study skills

For students with learning disabilities, difficulties with traditional math curricula have included all of the following EXCEPT:

Too many applied problems and not enough that focus on basic computation.

According to a report by the National Research Council (2001), "conceptual understanding" is a part of mathematical proficiency that refers to:

Understanding mathematic concepts and operations.

Which of the following statements regarding the use of calculators during math instruction is TRUE?

Use of calculators can increase self-concept by giving students confidence in their math abilities.

Mr. Barnes has several students who speak Spanish in his class and who are from a variety of countries in Latin America. When trying to teach percentages, he brings into class some recent figures from the U.S. census on how many people speak more than one language at home. In teaching the math principles, Mr. Barnes also uses Spanish words for percent, percentage, and fraction in addition to the English terms. By incorporating these techniques in his instruction on percentages, Mr. Barnes is doing all of the following EXCEPT:

Using a cross-curricular approach to teach his students both math and Spanish.

Which of the following is recommended for adapting textbooks to meet the needs of students with learning disabilities or behavior problems?

Using an alternative to reading such as listening to the text on CD

Paul's teacher pretested all of his multiplication facts in random order, timing him while he completed a worksheet and graphing the number of problems correct. Together, they planned for Paul to take a version of this test every week to determine whether he could increase the number of problems he got correct and decrease the amount of time he needed to complete the test. They kept a graph of Paul's progress. In this activity, Paul and his teacher are doing all of the following EXCEPT:

Using individually programmed assessment.

The use of contextual analysis and morphemic analysis are considered:

Word-learning strategies.

In preteaching vocabulary prior to an assigned reading, what types of words should teachers select?

Words that are critical to understanding the passage

Ms. Laurent examines several math errors of one of her students to try to figure out the pattern of errors. What is the pattern of error for these particular problems?

Wrong operation