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Which of the following activities would best help third graders develop an awareness of audience in order to improve the clarity of their writing? Options: preparing a written response to a story read aloud in class, taking notes during an oral presentation by a group of peers, reading informational passages about grade-level topics, participating with other students in peer reviews of their drafts

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participating with other students in peer reviews of their drafts

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Which of the following activities would best help fourth graders apply their knowledge of oral language to promote their understanding of punctuation conventions used in writing? Options: reading their writing aloud, making note of pauses and intonation patterns, reading and writing poems that include a range of end punctuation marks, inventing imaginary punctuation and rules and using them in sample sentences, naming each punctuation mark aloud when reading aloud a draft of their writing

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reading their writing aloud, making note of pauses and intonation patterns

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Based on informal assessments, which type of intervention would best address a second-grade student who is a struggling reader and relies on invented spellings when writing? Options: modeling strategies for memorizing letter sequences in words, providing intensive instruction in complex phonics patterns, using repeated reading with texts featuring grade-level work patterns, providing explicit instruction in structural analysis skills.

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providing intensive instruction in complex phonics patterns

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A pre-kindergarten teacher guides students in learning to sing "The Farmer in the Dell" by providing props such as a straw hat for the farmer and a cowbell for the cow. The children's use of these props is most likely encourage their development of:

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symbolic understanding