To help students take responsibility for their own learning and to individualize the
instructional program in spelling, a fourth grade teacher appropriately encourages his students to:
a) correct their own pretests and develop their own study lists
b) engage in round-robin reading activities
c) show all of their classwork to their parents
d) read trade books at home
Question 2
Although he knew that he should use a dictionary to find correct spellings, twelve year old
Ron said that he couldn't find the words he needed for his composition. His teacher correctly
told him that he should:
a) always ask a teacher to find the words for him
b) predict possible spellings for the words and then check the most probable spellings in the
dictionary
c) use invented spellings and later ask his parents to correct his work
d) only use high frequency words which he can spell correctly
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