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| provide instructional Strategies that help children learn how to read and understand what they are reading |
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| Courses in children's literature |
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Acquaint teachers with good quality material for children to read and strategies to motivate children to read widely for practice of their reading skills and for developing into lifelong reading. |
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Basal reader approach and the literature-based reading approach |
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| Inservice and preservice teachers will encounter two different approaches to literary subscribed to in schools and teacher training institutions |
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| a demand by government agencies and the public for school systems and teachers to improve students' school achievement as demonstrated by test scores in the areas of reading, writing, and mathematics |
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| free-choice reading done voluntarily in and out of school-has been the decline among children and young adults in this country for several decades. |
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| Helps strengthen skills through reading instruction and that the reading skills of those who do not engage in recreational reading, including good readers, often erode over time. |
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| Once they reach intermediate grades and middle grades |
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| many children have turned off reading |
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| What is the greatest challenge for teachers and librarians who work in primary grades is... |
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| To provide solid skills instruction and inspire children to love to read and to read voluntarily and regularly |
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| intermediate grade teachers must continue efforts to overcome students' resistance to reading by |
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| locating appealing materials and finding ways to get them to read widely and intensively both at school and home |
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| What is the aim of teachers, librarians, and publishers? |
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| To bring students to the reading habit by placing in their hands reading materials that will interest them and not intimidate them |
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| Book publishers aware of failing test scores... |
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| have produced books for low-level readers |
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| a matter of helping students select appropriate and appealing reading material |
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| In order to make your reading program effective |
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| focus on award winning, notable books, and books that appeal to individual children. |
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| have been shown to be one of the most powerful motivating forces available to teachers |
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| young children can listen and comprehend more difficult material better... |
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| Than they can read and comprehend |
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| suggests a feeling one has toward particular reading material |
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| implies making a choice from two or more options |
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| investigates print materials selected and read from a predetermined selection. |
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| There are no significant differences between reading preferences of boys and girls before what age? |
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| What is the first step to motivate your students to enjoy excellent quality? |
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| create an enthusiasm about books and reading. |
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| an estimate of a text's difficulty based on vocabulary and sentence structure |
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| pertains to the complexity of ideas treated in the work and how the ideas are presented |
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| What makes it difficult to provide materials of varying difficulty? |
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| students reading levels differ greatly in most classrooms. |
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| Being able to assess reading levels is helpful when... |
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| locating lower level materials |
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| When choosing independent or leisure reading... |
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| students should be encouraged to read books regardless of the level as long as they are capable of comprehension. |
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| A student with prior knowledge or interest in a subject... |
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| can not be factored into or measured by a formula |
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| You know a book is too difficult if |
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| they count more than 5 or 6 words that they can not read or do not know out of 100 words |
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| Reading incentive programs |
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| programs such as accelerated reader that motivate children to read more widely |
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| What is the main concern of incentive programs? |
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| students only value the books in the programs database due to the reward system |
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| What is the curricular area that is of most importance to parents, teachers and school administrators? |
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| What grades range in the highest decline in reading in the last twenty years? |
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