A 5th grade ELA class is studying different types of poetry and analyzing meaning. Which stage of cognitive development would be most appropriate for this age group? - - naswer-formal operation A language arts teacher want to help students find meaning in their reading sections. What strategy should be implement? - -answer-use questioning techniques to find out how students relate the text to their lives. During a read aloud, a teacher wants to assess students' listening skills. The teacher should do which of the following to perform her assessment? - -answer-stop and ask the class to repeat and paraphrase what was said. A 9th grade ELA teacher is planning a trip to a nursing home. Students will write about their experience. She wants to conduct a sensitivity training exercise, so students understand the behavior expectations for the trip. An effective activity for her students to engage in is: - -answer-Role play different scenarios to practice socializing with the elderly. Students are writing a persuasive essay about a topic of their choice. Which level of Piaget's cognitive development best classifies this activity? - -answer-formal operation What should the teacher do first before implementing technology in her ELA class? - - answer-Consult the districts tech policy to determine what has been approved. Students are writing the Florida Panther. A picture of the Florida Panther would best be utilized during what phase of writing? - -answer-pre-writing The American flag, a dove and a blind-coded woman with a scale in her hand are all examples of: - -answer-symbolism Identify the best interdisciplinary project to incorporate history, mathematics, and language arts. - -answer-writing a story about a time-traveler who visits famous mathematicians and helps them solve mathematical problems Students are preparing to write a newspaper article about the life cycle of the alligator. Which of the following would be the most likely type of organization that they might use in the article? - -answer-chronological A language arts teacher asks students to take out a piece of writing from their writing folder that they want to work on. The teacher tells the students to rewrite their piece of writing from a different perspective or point of view. This is a strategy for which stage of the writing process? - -answer-revising Among these literary genres, in which pair has one been most used within the other? - - answer-Poetry within fictional drama A class is studying wildlife and will write an essay about their favorite animal. During the introduction to this topi, the class looks at pictures of cheetahs. What stage of the writing process would be the best fit for this activity? - -answer-pre-writing A teacher knows that not all students come to ELA with the same background knowledge in literature. Which process is best when selecting works for the school year? - -answer-The teacher allows students to self select their own books Before the school year starts, a teacher is aware that her class will be culturally diverse. What topics can the teacher explore that will help her students access, process, and express information in her class? - -answer-cultural responsiveness, research practices, and information systems A teacher want to integrate language arts, social science and science into her upcoming unit. What would be the most effective activity for her students to engage in? - -answerhave the students read about the history of conservancy, then visit an estuary and record data, then write a letter based on the data that ask for more funding for the estuary ecosystem. Among genres of literature, which is typically the most condensed or verbally economical? - -answer-poem