A teacher would like to help a group of struggling readers enlarge their vocabularies and
motivate them to read. He can accomplish this goal most effectively by:
a) providing texts beyond their instructional reading level
b) increasing the time devoted to phonics instruction
c) asking students to write the definitions of new words
d) reading aloud to the students
e)
Question 2
When introducing new words, an eighth grade teacher always tells his students the language
from which the words were derived. Effective teachers have found that knowing a word's
history helps students to:
a) write that word in neat, cursive writing
b) alphabetize words correctly
c) improve their visual literacy
d) spell the word correctly