Which of the practices should be avoided when teachers incorporate vocabulary into a read-aloud?

• Read through the book and identify vocabulary words to be targeted for instruction.

• Pre-teach the vocabulary words to the students, and during the read-aloud discuss their meaning by providing brief, student-friendly definitions.

• Ask students to define target words before the read-aloud.

• After read-aloud, review the context of the words within the story.

Which is a correct practice when a child does not fully understand the text?

• Remind the child to recall the events in the story.

• Remind the child to refrain from going back to the story.

• Allow the child to reread the story.

• You reread the story to the child.

An example of clarifying an idea can be modeled as such: “The main character was ‘drowsy,’ so he went to take a nap. Which statement given by the children that is accepted as clarification of an idea?

• “Drowsy must mean ‘tired.’”

• “Drowsy must mean ‘’confused.”

• “Drowsy must mean ‘restful’”.

• “Drowsy must mean ‘dreamy’”.

In the story, “The Ant and the Grasshopper”, you want children to describe the Ant. What will you ask?

• Who is Ant in the story?

• Ant is hardworking, right?

• Will you describe Ant by his action?

• What can you say about Ant?

What is the child doing when he/she is transforming the print to meaning?

• Word analysis processing

• Using relational meaning clues

• Decoding word

• Activating prior knowledge

How will you motivate the reluctant reader using his/her intellectual curiosity?

• Set high expectation

• Use more abled readers as models

• Find out topics of his/her interest

• Suggest books that you find interesting

As the child reads, he/she formulates ____________.

• Problems

• Conclusion

• Models

• Hypotheses

In the question, “Did Ant help the Grasshopper? Why do you think so? What comprehension processing and thinking is required?

• Problem solving

• Inference

• Recall

• Inference and Interpretation

In this questions, “How would you have reacted, had you been the Ant who is being asked by the Grasshopper to share his food?” What level of thinking is applied?

• Transactive

• Applicative

• Interpretive

• Factual

Two components that characterize skillful reading comprehension: __________________ and _______________________