Letrs Units 5-8 Pretest & Posttest Study Guide Graded A+

Students with comprehension weaknesses benefit from teachers actively mediating comprehension because these students: {Ans: typically make fewer, lower-quality inferences on their own.}If an English Learner (EL) is confused about the meaning of a reading passage, a teacher might be more successful conveying the meaning by: {Ans: supplementing the language in the text with pictures, actions, and objects.}Of the topic sentences below, which one would be most appropriate for writing an opinion? {Ans: This book about wolves is one of my favorites.}Dialect differences characterize students in many regions of the United States. Research supports handling these language differences by: {Ans: explicitly contrasting "home language" with "school language" in frequent, brief lessons.}Which of the following would be a good example to use while teaching students to identify compound sentences? a) After the rain, we went out and started again. b) The team went out and played in the rain. c) The rain came but the team played on. d) The team, drenched by the rain, played without stopping. {Ans: The rain came but the team played on.}To introduce a Tier 2 vocabulary word explicitly and systematically before reading, which of these strategies would be LEAST effective?