Competency 007

Question 1

What research is behind Zone of Proximal Development?

Answer 1

Vygotsky

Question 2

Pre-reading Activities

Answer 2

Prior knowledge is activated, new prior knowledge is formed, and interest is stirred

Question 3

Story Retelling

Answer 3

Strategy used with young children to assess listening and reading comprehension; can also assess sentence structure knowledge, vocabulary, speaking ability, and knowledge about the structure of stones

Question 4

Strategy for activating prior knowledge

Answer 4

KWL Charts; has student describe what they Know, Want to know, and Learned and still want to learn, or areas that the students did not understand that well

Question 5

Predicting or Asking Questions

Answer 5

Clarify understanding and forge ahead to make meaning

Question 6

Visualizing

Answer 6

Create visual images based on the words in a text

Question 7

Drawing Inferences

Answer 7

The readers take what they know, garner clues from the text, and think ahead to make a judgment, discern a theme, or speculate about what is to come

Question 8

Determining Important Ideas

Answer 8

Readers are able to differentiate between less important ideas and key ideas

Question 9

Synthesizing Information

Answer 9

Involved combining new information with existing knowledge to form an original idea or interpretation

Question 10

Repairing Understanding

Answer 10

Stopping to understand and clarify their confusion

Question 11

Confirming Predictions

Answer 11

Confirming negatively or positively one’s prediction about the meaning of the text

Question 12

Using Parts of a Book

Answer 12

Using parts of a book to improve their understanding of the reading content

Question 13

Reflecting

Answer 13

Thinking, discussing, or journaling about what they read

Question 14

Convergent Questions

Answer 14

Indicates that only one answer is correct

Question 15

Divergent Questions

Answer 15

Indicates that more than one answer is correct

Question 16

Cloze Test

Answer 16

A passage with omitted words the test-taker must supply; the test-maker must decide whether to require the test-taker to supply the exact word or to accept synonyms

Question 17

Speed

Answer 17

The faster the student reads, the better that student comprehends, with some limitations

Question 18

Semantic Mapping

Answer 18

Strategy to make direct connections between the vocabulary or words they are learning in the classroom and those that they have seen, heard, or learned priorly