Before introducing a reading selection, third-grade teacher Christine Jansk wrote five purposes on the whiteboard to guide her students' reading. When the students had difficulty comprehending the text, the principal correctly suggested that it would probably have been more effective to:
a) set a single purpose for reading
b) set purposes after the students read the first paragraph
c) ask students to write the purposes in their reading logs
d) read the text aloud before setting purposes
Question 2
The goal of both the reading process and the writing process is:
a) developing oral fluency
b) learning about an author
c) constructing meaning
d) creating new stories
