Social Studies Flashcards
A company owning and conducting business from a specific building is an example of
Capital
Identify instructional methods that would help children to recognize the relationship among the following words: alligator, frogs, crocodiles toads and salamanders
Semantic Feature Analysis
Which student assignment will be best accomplished analyzing advertisement for hidden messages?
Studying an advertisement provided by the teacher and asking questions.
If students want to correspond with their peers from another state on an assigned project on emergent technology , which method will me most expedient?
Electronic Mail
Students in a 6th grade class are encouraged to read the newspaper for a part of the class period 3 days a week. The teacher shoudl suggest to the students that the best approach for reading the newspaper is to
skim the entire newspaper, then read closely the important and interesting articles.
Using letter sound connections is an example of what type of cueing system?
Graphophonemic
Which strategy would be most useful for increasing a student understanding of the main idea
Categorize phases in relation to the central idea
To help students develop meanings for figurative language, a teacher should use which of the following strategies?
Paraphrasing
What shoud be done to assess after instruction in reading remediation?
Diagnostic teacher made
Scoring with rating scale and detail expectations is which type of scoring method?
Holistic teacher rubric
What can be used to understand and personalize culture and global society?
Pen Pals and museums
The best strategy to prevent violence in schools is
Peer Mediation
What is the best way to assess if a student comprehends a story ready in 1st grade?
Retell, draw picture to illustrate, multiple choice
Child writing letters and nonsense words is evidence of
emergent writing
After finishing a cooperative group Mrs. Jackson asked her students to write an evaluation of their work. This is an example of
Expository
Story genre with conflicts, magical events is
fantasy
Best way to assess if students were listening to story read is by
retelling drawing
When writing more to an edited essay
Revision
A fifth grade class went on a field trip connected to the Egyptian culture. Upon returning to the school, the students worked in small groups to write their reactions to some of the Islamic art. This exercise is an example of
Exposition
The mode of writing that includes many details and often use adjectives and adverbs to evoke images ina reader’s mind is called
Descriptive
As Mrs. Taylor’s kindergarten class asked her to write their favorite books. She writes on chart paper each phrase of sentence the children dictate.She directs their attention to the beginning and ending of each line as she writes and orally repeats the dictation to reinforce
left to right sequencing
The following writing example is which type of writing: I grew up in a citrus grove in Florida. One of my chores was to help pick oranges.
Autobiography
Administering a high frequency word list for students to read will be appropriate procedure for assessing
word meaning knowledge
At the beginning of the year, the teacher wanted to determine her students’ independent and instructional reading levels. Which assessment instrument is most appropriate?
Informal reading inventory
The writing test is grades on a scale from
1-6
Which of the following is used to grade hollistically
rubric
A kindergarten teacher who is having students stretch their arms out wide while recorded music gets loud or bring their arms together when the music gets soft is assessing the children’s understanding of
Pitch
Who composed the state song Old folks at home?
Stephen Foster
Which concept is taught through the objective listed below: singing unisom songs by number or syllables, playing pitch patterns by letter names and listening and following scores
Melodic notation
One of the best ways to help students learn to read graphs is to
have students record their reading rates on a graph
After asking 1st grade students to identify elements of arts, a teacher asked them how their elements make them feel? This would develop student’s thinking in which critical area
evaluating a work of art
what are the names of the lines of the treble cells staff from low to high?
EGBDF
When teaching the use of charcoal and pastels in teh classroom, what is the most important safety precaution for the teacher to take?
Instruct the students to avoid smearing and smudging of their drawing to eliminate dust.
When students dictate stories reread their stories then practice the words on flash cards , the teacher is using
language experience approach
a classroom teacher reads numerous word play books to and with her students. THis acitivity primarily promotes
the development of comprehension
After his students read a detective story from a basal reader, Mr. Voran asked them to make a judgement about the guilt or the innocence of the main character. What type of is mr. Koran encouraging
DIvergent
knowledge of vocabulary or word meaning correlates strongly with
reading comprehension
When reading a paragraph in her social studies textbook, Mary has difficulty distinguishing the main idea from supportive points and details. An appropriate activity that will help her will be to
skim an entire reading selection rapidly
Will thought he was a poor writer because he mispelled so many words even though his teacher found the story he wrote exciting. The best method to help Will with his spelling ability is to have him
use a word wall for looking up words
Mr straton is beginning a new unit in his social studies textbook . He instructs the class to read the title, read the introduction, summary and question, rad the headings and sub headings, rad the print , study visual material such as pictures, maps and diagrams,. Which of the following study skills is he demonstrating
Previewing
It is very difficult for students for students to accommodate that conflicts the previous information or beliefs. Which of the following explains this phenomenon
metacognitive process
Which of the following words are spelled incorrectly
separate
A teacher wants the students to become more skillful in composing sentences wich of the following activities would produce the best results
writing and manipulating sentences
A 4th grade student is given the writing prompt a magic box is found under a tree. In the third paragraph of the story the student strays from the prompt by writing about a grandparent’s fascination with magic. Which of the following traits of writing does thsi affect
ideas
Several 4th grade teachers have expressed concern that the reading series they use is not meeting the needs of individual students. They have developed a more individualized reading program to teach comprehension skills. The teacher administers a pretest to determine skills strengths and weaknesses and instruction is based on the results of the pretest. They should administer a
Criterion Reference Test
The assessment that best enables a teacher to determine reading comprehension is an
informal reading inventory
The following information has been recorded about a . What instructional strategy would probably be most beneficial fo rthe student
providing software that includes short passages questions and the performance score
The most appropriate use of a reading survey is to identify students
attitudes and interests.
A kindergarten teacher is reading a book to her students. As she reads, she moves in the pointer under the words. Which concept did she focus on?
Directionality
Jackson is a 1st grader who has transferred to a new school. His new teacher has discovered that he is weak in letter and letter sound recognition. To remedy this deficiency , one of the best pedogogical approaches would be
phonics instruction
An effective technique that provides an assessment of a students ability to comprehend text is
retelling
Ina heterogeneous 3rd grade class, what information is most useful for accurately forming reading groups
instructional reading levels
A 4th grade teacher is preparing to explain a student’s score in the 56th percentile on the vocabulary section of a standardized test to the student’s parents during a parent teacher conference. The best explanation of this score is that the student
scored as well as or higher than 56% of the other students taking this section of the test.
Hand to eye coordination,fine motor skills and correct posture are all characteristics needed by students to
produce legible handwriing
A second grade teacher reads a story to the class. To assess listening skills, the teacher should ask the students to
retell the story.
Students are to read one another’s composition in an initial peer editing exercise. The best approach for students to take when reading each other’s work is to
Read the paper, a sentence at a time, noting errors in mechanics and sentence structure
At the beginning of the class, the teacher displays a chart listing all the 50 states along with their state trees, state flags, and state birds. The students discuss the states and their corresponding symbols, then the teacher writes the following on the board. Mocking Bird, Florida, Blue Jay
Florida is to orange Georgia Peaches
analogies
Which strategy would be most useful for increasing a student’s understanding of a main idea?
Catergorize phrases in relation to a central idea
A 4th grade teacher has a group of ten students at the 3rd grade istructional reading level . The teacher has determined through observation during the past month that the studetns are using graphophonemic skills, what other word should be used to attack the word Pizzas in the sentence below? Hamburgers, hot dogs, and pizzas were served at the party
Contextual semantic
One of the best ways to help students learn to read graphs is to
Have the student record their reading rates for selected graphs
Students need to further develop an original draft of writing as part of the
Revision
Directions for characters is an example of an element most frequently found in
drama
Identify the literary device used in the followin example: His nose was as red as a rose
simile
Mrs. Green realizes her classroom needs a wider selection of multiculture books. To help her choose a good selection, she should check
The media center’s collection
Students are working in several groups around the classroom after becoming familiar with the textbook of William Staige. Some are constructing murals. Others are dramatizing the story. The rest of the students constructed a large paper machie. Which grouping style is used in this situation?
Interest
A student in the beginning stages of writing development will be most likely to
Develop sentence writing
The 6th grade course guide requires students to revise all parts of the wring process prewriting, drafting, revising and editing. What will be the most effective approach at the beginning of the school year?
Explain all phases of the writing proces provide visual stimuli, and brainstorm ideas on the topic to be assigned.
Choose the sentence that contains no errors
Geneses Laboratory is ready for production as its cancer detection compound gets approval for clinical trials.
In their writing tasks ,Mrs. Charles has asked her students to write a selection that will include characters’ actions relative to a problem and its solutions. This is an example of which writing mode?
Expository
What wriing format should be used when writing a friend or relative?
Letter
After a unit on bookreports the teacher receives the following response from the writing assignment. I grew up in citrus grove in Central Florida. One of my duties was to pick oranges. This is an example of what type of writing
Reflection
An effective way to determine students’ ability to recall information is
Summarizing
Simon scored at the 80th percentile on a standardized reading achievement test. This indicates that Simon scored
As well or better than 80 % of the norming group
A rubric will be best used to assess students’ performance
in writing an essay
Mrs. Jackson has retrieved the following assessment data for Erica, one of her 6th grade students reading SSS 297 High end of level 2 and Reading NRT 30th percentile
Using this data, which conclusion can be made
Ericka is performing at levels that are well below her peers on both the SSs and NRT reading assessment
The teacher and her class write a language experience about their trip to the zoo. The class reads their stories together while the teacher sweeps her hands alond the text. This is a good practice activity to develop
Print concept
Third graders have listened to their teacher read the humorous patterned book Just for You They have written an original sentence patterned after the book. The teacher intends to collet the work in a book to be loaned out in the media center. The children are now in the process of illustrating their own sentences. For which of the following are the children preparing
Publishing
In March, a first grade student is able to decode words in a primer but is struggling to master context knowledge in the class. He is having trouble with characteristics of emergent literature?
Comprehension
In a 4th grade classroom, children of high, middle and low ability are mixed together in 3-4 member groups. They are assigned tasks to be completed as a group while the teacher circulates while the group helps as requested. This grouping style is an example of
Cooperative Groups
Mrs. Desmond’s class has written a paragraph about some applications. She has asked that they reread and check carefully for mechanical errors. Ms. Desmond is teaching her class to
Edit
Amy is a 4th grade student obtained a language art grade equivalent score of 7.6 on a standardized test. What is the best explanation to give the parent about the score?
Since she scored this high on the test, she has some mastery of specific skills for 7th grade.
A teacher who focuses students’ attention on enjoyable reading material by allowing students to after reading is using a technique known as
book _____
A child entering kindergarten loves to write using scribbles, mock letters and pictures. These skills indicate that the student is in which of the following stages of writing development
emerging
Students need to further develop an original draft of writing as part of
revision
A story that involves a quest, a battle between the the powers of good and evil, and some element of is most likely an example of
fantasy
A third grade class is going to read a tall tale. Which of the following is the best choice for this genre?
Pecos Bill
One of the best methods for improving a reader’s attitude toward reading is to
place students in books at the appropriate reading level
After 6th grade students listen to a story, it would be most appropriate for them to respond to what they have heard by
writing in a journal
According to the reader response theory, the role of the reader is to
participate in constructing from the text
Which of these approaches is most effective in teaching students to decode the following words: gramp, whack, squall and bleat
phonic analysis
A teacher has a small group of 1st grade students who have very limited sight word vocabularies and few decoding skills. Select the most effective strategies the teacher can use to develop their word recognition skills.
‘drawing objects in the classroom, making books that have controlled vocabularies and providing explicit phonics instruction
A teacher develops a set of word cards emphasizing the at sound. He identifies the first work as bat. Each of the next few words contain the at sound but has a different begining letter. The teacher asks students to read each work. If a student cannot read the word, the teacher points out the letter differences and how the pronunciation of each word changes owhen the beginning consonant letter is changed
graphophonemic cues
A student in the beginning stages of writing development would be most likely to
develop sentence writing