Module 1: Quiz on Skills, Strategies, and Learning Concepts

The terms skills and strategies are not synonymous. Skills differ from strategies because skills are used:

• automatically

• as problem-solving tools

• only in an academic setting

• only in written activities

The smallest units of sound are called:

• phonemes

• graphemes

• morphemes

• letters

Last year, Sarah felt comfortable using her college’s program for online registration. When the college introduced a new program, however, Sarah had difficulty and experienced:

• equilibrium

• disequilibrium

• schemata

• constructivism

When students reflect upon their learning styles and become aware of what they know and don’t know, they are using:

• schemata

• repetends

• metacognition

• disequilibrium

Although they could not yet write business letters independently, a group of third-grade students were able to write business letters with their teacher’s assistance. Consequently, this task fell within the students’:

• alphabetic principles

• communicative competence

• metacognition

• zone of proximal development

Although Emily conversed comfortably with peers and with older adults, she struggled when presenting oral reports in class. Emily had not yet developed:

• alphabetic principles

• communicative competence

• metacognition

• proximal development

In the word unopened, un is an example of a:

• free morpheme

• bound morpheme

• suffix

• cognate

Although the classroom community evolves during the school year, effective teachers lay the foundation:

• during the first 2 weeks of instruction

• in periodic newsletters

• only after meeting with parents

• through summer online conversations

Research suggests that during language arts instruction, children are more highly motivated to participate when they:

• engage in whole-group instruction

• successfully complete worksheets

• have frequent tests and quizzes

• have opportunities to select their own books

When the teacher gave students time to write in their journals, 8-year-old Mei struggled with spelling. Instead of becoming discouraged, however, she sought help from the teacher, used the class Word Wall, and learned to use spell check features on the computer. This attitude shows that Mei achieved:

• reading fluency

• self-efficacy

• prosody

• morphology