1. Language Arts include all
EXCEPT
reading
speaking
listening
drawing
2. An effective means of teaching
grammar and mechanics is
mini-lessons
drill
practice
exercises
diagramming
sentences
3. Talking and active listening help
middle level students take responsibility for their own learning by
giving them
opportunities to express themselves
doing the
teaching
helping
them to connect with others
providing
opportunities to explore
ideas and express themselves
4. The main purposes
for writing in school are all of the following EXCEPT
practice and present knowledge of spelling and grammar
to explore
to
learn about writing
to
connect and transform
to showcase learning
5. Word study helps
students to do all of the following EXCEPT
research
how and for what purposes words came into being
learn
how context shapes meaning
practice
dictionary skills
learn
about how language varies and changes in different regions, across
cultural groups and across different time periods
6. Peer-editing
(critical friend) can be most effective as a learning tool when
peer partners
mark
all grammar, punctuation, and spelling errors
are
grouped by ability
make
suggestions that will help students to do their best work
are
allowed to do it infrequently
7. Palladino maintains
that adolescence as a life stage emerged in the last century because of:
work on
farms, factories and in homes
raging
hormones
economic
conditions that brought teenagers together in the school setting
biology
Short Answer
8. List the six traits
of writing and an activity for each that would be appropriate for your
intended classroom..
9. Describe formative
assessment and give two examples you would use when teaching Language Arts
10. Describe summative
assessment and give two examples you would use when teaching Language
Arts.
Essay
(150 word limit for each)
11. Teachers spend a
lot of time trying to make students be quiet or stop talking. In
light of the "lenses" described by your authors, how could you use the
tendency of children to talk to help them learn effectively in your
future classroom?
12.
You were provided with an excellent
online workshop on interdisciplinary learning, which is defined by Heidi
Jacobs as “a knowledge view and curriculum approach that consciously
applies methodology and language from more than one discipline to
examine a central theme, topic, problem, issue or work.” Describe an
interdisciplinary unit that you might design in your future teaching
practice. Include content, skills and thinking processes and assessments
that you would use to assure quality interdisciplinary learning that
strongly integrates language arts. Begin the unit with your area of
specialization and explain how you will include other disciplines.