PPR Review

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Mr. Drake is a first-grade teacher who is using the whole language approach when teaching about animals. Before reading a story to the students, Mr. Drake tells the students their purpose for reading the story and what they are expected to learn. What is his reason for doing this?

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Mr. Drake is modeling a pre-reading skill in order to teach it to the young readers.

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What is one way to save pets that are no longer wanted?

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Synthesis

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By planning the lesson this way, Mr. Drake has:

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utilized the students' strengths and weaknesses to maximize time, materials, and the overall quality of the learning environment.

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What should Mr. Drake consider when planning the learning experience for first-grade learners about the animal kingdom?

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Students will overestimate how much information they can retrieve from memory.

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What is Mr. Drake's main intention for constructing a semantic map of related words and terms before reading a story about a veterinary hospital?

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To demonstrate a meaningful relationship between the concepts of the story and the prior knowledge of the students.

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Identify strategies that parents can use to promote vocabulary development in a fun and relaxed environment: Use flash cards, pictures, and concrete objects to introduce vocabulary words, Play hide-and-seek and watch television with the child, Ask the child to write a summary of the events of the day in school and provide corrective feedback emphasizing appropriate grammar and vocabulary, Ask the child to memorize a list of vocabulary words with their definitions

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Use flash cards, pictures, and concrete objects to introduce vocabulary words

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The _LEAST effective technique to promote literacy at home is to: read aloud to the child, ask the child to read to you, ask the child to invite friends home and encourage them to read together, create a "quiet reading time" for the whole family.

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ask the child to invite friends home and encourage them to read together.

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As the students work in the learning centers, Miss Sharp moves from group to group asking questions and commenting on each student's progress. This procedure indicates that Miss Sharp most likely views her role as a/an

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facilitator.

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Which of the following would be the most appropriate concluding activity for the "Discoveries" unit? Options: Students should have a class party celebrating the birthday of Marie Curie, Jonas Salk, and Thomas Edison. , Each student should be required to prepare a verbal report detailing what they learned about an important medical discovery. , Each student should take a multiple-choice test containing questions related to each learning center. , Each student should design a concluding activity, or select one from a prepared list, that reflects what he or she learned about one discovery from those studied. 

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Each student should design a concluding activity, or select one from a prepared list, that reflects what he or she learned about one discovery from those studied. 

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In selecting resource materials for Learning Center #2, Miss Sharp carefully chooses materials that present information about a variety of discoveries made by both men and women from several different countries. Her purpose in making these selections is most probably to ensure that materials

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demonstrate the diversity of individuals who have made discoveries.