Author Question: Three of the following strategies are consistent with recommendations for teaching reading skills. ... (Read 118 times)

@Brianna17 · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Three of the following strategies are consistent with recommendations for teaching reading skills. Which one is generally not recommended?

a. Encourage students to meet in small groups to discuss a novel they are all reading.
b. Give students frequent opportunities to choose what they read. Students use better reading strategies when they are interested in the material.
c. Give students in the early elementary grades lots of practice with isolated reading skills before asking them to apply the skills in an actual reading assignment.
d. Use games such as Twenty Questions to enhance phonological awareness and other basic reading skills.

Question 2

Imagine that you are a high school teacher. Which one of the following assumptions should you make about your students' reading abilities?

a. Many will continue to need guidance about how to read effectively.
b. The great majority have mastered the process of reading, but perhaps 1015 of them will need your assistance in reading tasks.
c. Those students who have ineffective reading strategies will be obvious to you within the first two or three weeks of the school year.
d. Those students who struggle to understand their textbooks probably need intensive interaction by a reading specialist.