PPR4

An eighth-grade team plans a thematic unit in which students learn about the concept of courage in all their subject areas. A primary advantage of implementing

• self-refection about the content-area materials

• connections with the content in multiple areas

• collaboration in groups about the content

• D. comprehension of the content for all ability levels

Which of the following would be the most efective way to help second-grade students understand the Sun's apparent movement across the sky?

• Reading aloud nonfiction books about the Sun and Earth and asking students question s to check for understanding.

• Observing and recording the length of an object's shadow at different times during the day with the class.

• C. Inviting a meteorologist to speak to the class about how the Sun's position afects local weather

• Creating a bar graph to show hourly changes in outdoor air temperature throughout the day

Which of the following teacher actions would best support middle school students as they each explore their own identity?

• Providing a variety of learning experiences to give students an opportunity to determine their strengths.

• Placing students in cooperative learning groups to give students an opportunity to collaborate.

• Including authentic learning experiences for students that are relevant to the curriculum

• Breaking complex tasks into several short segments to facilitate students' comprehension

Which of the following teacher actions is most appropriate for addressing the third unit planning question?

• Inviting the art teacher to teach students about Grecian urns so they may design their own

• Leading minilessons about the history, culture, and intellectual contributions of ancient Greece

• Requiring students to research various aspects of ancient Greece and share them in small groups

• Asking other teachers on the team to incorporate lessons on ancient Greece into their curricular

To best demonstrate for elementary students the appropriate note-taking skills to use during research, a teacher should model which of the following?

• Outlining when recording information

• Using graphic organizers to record information

• Organizing information with note cards

• Determining the reliability of the information

Which of the following describes the best way for the teacher to address the first unit planning question?

• Giving the students a focus by assigning each student to a specific role within the group

• Requiring each student to complete a daily assessment of their participation in the group

• Asking one student in each group to keep record of the other students' participation and interactions for the teacher

• Rotating around the classroom to observe each group at work and grading students' participation.

A teacher introduces students to an interactive web site. Before having students explore the site it is most important that the teacher first emphasize which of the following in the acceptable use policy?

• website validity

• net etiquette

• electronic copyright laws

• proper use of search engines

A 7th grade teacher is teaching a unit on American Investors. Each day the class reads a sketch to help intermediate ELL comprehend. The teacher should:

• administrate formative assessment after student read the sketches

• provide students with a graphic organizer to record main ideas covered in the sketch

• ask students how well they are able to understand the content of sketches

• have students highlight portions of each sketch are unclear to them.

A high school teacher observes that English-language learners (ELLs) at the beginning level of language profciency in speaking do not participate in classroom discussions. The most efective way to help the ELLs is to

• have native-language-speaking peers interpret discussion points and provide responses for the ELLs

• have English-speaking peers model discussions and then allow the ELLs to rehearse before participating.

• provide short sentence stems and terms related to the discussion for the ELLs to practice before participating.

• provide one-on-one oral language instruction and then practice discussing a wide range of topics with the ELLs.

)After reading from a science textbook written in English, an English-language learner at the advanced-high level of proficiency completes the following activity card by listing a definition for precipitation, listing its part of speech, and listing an example. Which of the following is a primary purpose of the activity?

• Applying English phonetics

• Understanding English syntax

• Assessing reading comprehension

• Building academic vocabulary