Composition and Rhetoric

Question 1

Activating background knowledge, predicting or asking questions, visualizing imagery, and drawing inferences are all

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reading strategies

Question 2

Picking out key ideas, synthesizing, stopping to clarify understanding, confirming predictions, using graphic organizers, and reflection are all

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reading strategies

Question 3

Semantic cueing is the same as using

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context clues

Question 4

Syntax cueing is

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looking at the order of words to make meaning out of a sentence

Question 5

To use background knowledge as a cueing system…

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students may pause and reflect on background knowledge to make meaning out of the text ahead

Question 6

Using before/after/during reading skills to self-monitor comprehension and use fix-up strategies is referred to as

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metacognition

Question 7

Analyzing a student’s reading strategies and recording any departures from the text to find clues to their reading process is called

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miscue analysis

Question 8

The four levels of reading comprehension are

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Literal, Interpretive/Inferential, Critical, Creative

Question 9

A few methods for assessing reading progress might include

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daily observation, running record, informal reading inventory, rubric, miscue analysis, and diagnosis of errors

Question 10

The three ways language acquisition occurs is through

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receptive (receiving the language externally), cognitive (forming thoughts), expressive (speaking/writing/gesturing)

Question 11

This 2nd language acquisition hypothesis believes language is both acquired in an unconscious striving to communicate on a daily basis and learned through formal instruction of language

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Acquisition-learning hypothesis

Question 12

This 2nd language acquisition hypothesis suggests that the acquired affects the learned–meaning the person monitors their speech to apply learned rules in order to edit acquired language

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Monitor hypothesis

Question 13

This 2nd language acquisition hypothesis contends there are four natural steps - single words, stringing words together, identifying beginnings/ends to sentences, identifying elements within sentences and forming them into questions

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Natural order hypothesis

Question 14

This 2nd language acquisition hypothesis suggests that learners must encounter language a step beyond their natural order of acquiring it (from natural order hypothesis)

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Input hypothesis

Question 15

This 2nd language acquisition hypothesis believes that external factors like motivation, confidence, and anxiety impede language acquisition.

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Affective filter hypothesis

Question 16

“Everyone has the capacity to write,” “People learn to write by writing,” and “Writing is a process” are three of the eleven principles of teaching writing cited by what organization?

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NCTE

Question 17

What are the 8 steps of the writing process suggested by NCTE?

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Choose topic -> purpose & audience -> research and select info -> choose appropriate form -> write draft -> revise as you go -> proofread/evaluate -> publish (these steps can flip-flop as you go)

Question 18

Name a few prewriting strategies

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Brainstorming, thinking/reflecting, talking/remembering, jotting ideas/drawing, reading/researching, observing/viewing, using graphic organizers, considering task/purpose/audience/POV/form

Question 19

The method of providing structural supports to a student and removing them as the student becomes more skilled is called

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scaffolding

Question 20

The SQ3R method stands for

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Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review