A teacher has several English language Learners students in her classroom and wants to provide them with appropriate  reading material.  What should the teacher do? This should say provide all students with appropriate various reading levels not just ELL

• Provide English Language Learners a variety of text at their reading level

• provide ELD instruction

1.  The teacher wrote the following sentence on the board and asked the students to fill the space with a nonsense word. 

He is __________  ____________ to get that from the carnival stand. (answer choices for fill-in-the-blank: lubbed, twirny, flogging, shoor)wq

 What is the teacher trying to check her student’s understanding?

• The teacher is trying to check if he can read

• The teacher is trying to check if the student uses grammar, internal knowledge when reading.

 A fifth grade teacher provides her students with an easier science article with easier vocabulary about the topic of asteroids before reading from the actual science textbook.  What is the teacher trying to achieve?

• reading and comprehensive exercise

• Possible frontloading, pre teaching/preloading information to familiarize students with content and vocabulary ______ YES this is it.

  
  

The teacher said the word basketball, then asked the student to delete the word basket and say the word.  The student replied “ball”, what is the teacher trying to check with the students?

• Compound word deletion

  "Say cowboy. Say it again, but don't say cow."

• Word consciousness

  
  

Endothermic and exothermic passage.  This passage is going to be about mammals and reptiles and briefly describe the warm blooded aspect of mammals and we’ll also talk about snakes.

The child tells the teacher that he knows what exothermic means but not endothermic. What should the teacher suggest to help the student find the definition?

Answer: use context clues

Question 1:

• the stage of spelling development

• Context clues - Answer  

  Or

  Word morphology

  
  

Endothermic and exothermic passage.  This passage is going to be about mammals and reptiles and briefly describe the warm blooded aspect of mammals and we’ll also talk about snakes.

Question 2: where it asks if all endotherms are mammals

• literal comprehension information

• mammals and reptiles

Endothermic and exothermic passage.  This passage is going to be about mammals and reptiles and briefly describe the warm blooded aspect of mammals and we’ll also talk about snakes.

Question 3: Without the nonrestrictive clause, the reader would know from the text that ____

• aspect of mammals

• exotherms need heat to live

The teacher provides students a sentence frame and demonstrates how to fill the sentence frames.  What is the teacher trying to demonstrate?

• Figurative Language -

• An ugly castle was in the forest.

  
  

== it’s the Gerald the Giraffe story==

There is a comprehension passage about a zoo animal where first grade students read about giraffes and why other animals did not like the giraffe.  This was a three-part question. Small group activity.

1. 1. Who was the animal that other animals did not welcome and like?

   
   

• Literal comprehension students answered giraffe

• Literal comprehension students answered lion

== it’s the Gerald the Giraffe story== (3 questions)

2. 2. The teacher asked the student why didn’t the other animals like giraffes?  What does she encourage the student to do?

• Teacher is encouraging students to read

  
  

• Teacher is encouraging students to use evidence from the text.