REMEDIAL INSTRUCTION

The following phrases describe remedial teaching except:

• Working purposefully and intensively with a pupil

• Making sure that pupils remain in school

• Working systematically: observing, diagnosing, remediating, evaluating

• Re-teaching , reviewing and assessing  

What does remedial instruction focus on?

• Grammar

• Test

• Skills

• Content

Because reading remediation requires building skills rather than learning course content, which should reading teachers do?

I. Minimize testing and grading

II. Observe the student in the actual act of reading

III. Make reading classes a grammar class

• A. I and II

• B. II only

• C. III only

• D. I, II and III

Which of the following should a teacher do prior reading remediation?

• Thoroughly assess and evaluate students

• Conduct an interest inventory through a questionnaire

• Administer an informal reading inventory.

• Design a material reading program

What is the primary goal of remedial instruction in English?

• To separate the low performing from the high performing.

• To help students cope with the demands of their actual level

• To help schools achieve their mission and in quality education

• To identify students who do not achieve school standards

Which is an important curriculum consideration in the remedial writing program?

• Develop hand writing fluency through speed trials

• Prioritize word recognition and spelling sight words

• Place emphasis on difficult-to-form letters.

• Stress neatness and legibility of cursive hand writing

Micah cannot distinguish the sounds of /l/ and /r/. Which remedial listening strategies can her teacher implement?

• Provide ample exercise on sound discrimination

• Give exercises on various intonation patterns

• Practice strategies in decoding sight words

• Identify liaisons and incomplete plosives

Which among the following does NOT correctly apply syllabication principles?

• hum-ble

• gig-gle

• irra-tio-nal

• un-touch-a-ble

Which of the following components of a remedial program involve learners monitoring their progress?

• Cognitive development

• Schema enhancement

• Personal emotional growth development

• The enforcement and extension

Alex has trouble identifying and reading sight words. Which of the following strategies addresses this deficit?

• Let students use context clues

• Have students trace the word on paper

• Have student write sentences

• Discuss the meaning of words through pictures