Reading Strategies Article

The author suggests that teachers should organize their time around their ________________.

• groups
• lesson plans
• goals
• book choice

According to the text, which group of students does the teacher feel like she meets with the most?

• gifted students
• struggling students
• green/blue students
• tardy students

According to the text, which type of teaching and learning will lead to the biggest student gains?

• small group
• partner reading
• independent reading
• whole group

Research shows "the superiority of small group teaching over whole class teaching, but also found that this advantage to be dissipated by the relatively low amounts of learning obtained during the independent seat work activities that students were obliged to engage in while their classmates receive small group instruction." Some of these independent seat work activities that result in high level of learning include all of the following except:

• Picture walk of text with multiple books
• Digital instructional resources with accountability procedures in place
• PBL with grading rubric
• 15 minutes of fluency activities with the same text

Small group instruction should be aimed at...

• reinforcing
• extending
• insuring the whole class lessons stick
• all of the above