If you were Mr. Mercurio, what strategies might you use to help ...

[dollx]

If you were Mr. Mercurio, what strategies might you use to help William?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Why is Jodie misbehaving? Identify two or more hypotheses.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

[ngr69]

Answer to Question 1

Possible strategies include these:
 Identify an artistic skill at which William feels relatively proficient and encourage him to develop that skill.
 Document the progress that William is making, even on uncompleted pieces, during the school year.

Answer to Question 2

Here are some likely possibilities:
 Jodie does not have the reading skills to accomplish the assigned seatwork task successfully, and so she must find something else to do to pass the time.
 Perhaps because she has learned that she is unlikely to be academically successful, she places greater priority on social relationships