Chapter 3 Quiz

1. The teaching-learning cycle is:

2. Scaffolding describes the role of the teacher throughout the teaching-learning cycle. It is best described as:

3. Marie selected a narrative text about a family's experience of migrating to Australia as a means of introducing the topic of immigration to her Year 4 class. After reading an extract, she asked the students to think of three reasons why people move to another country and to share them with the person beside them. Marie's decisions to select the particular text together with her instructions are examples of:

4. The term 'metalanguage' as it is used in your textbook is best described as:

5. During his literacy session, Jo organises the students into small groups and provides each group with a number of different examples of procedures; e.g. recipes, instruction manuals, craft activities, rules. He asks the students to work in their groups to sort through the examples and identify language features that are 'always', 'usually' and 'sometimes' found in procedures. This is an example of the stage of curriculum cycle known as:

6. The most common form of talk in many classrooms is known as

7. An activity in which children work initially in pairs to list everything they know about cats then share their lists with the rest of the class is referred to as:

8. Questions 8 and 9 refer to the following dialogue between a teacher and her Year 3 students during a series of Science lessons about vertebrates. The children will eventually write their own information reports about particular animals.

1.

Teacher:

Okay, let’s think about what we did in Science yesterday. Hands up if you remember. Yes, Amy?
2.Amy:We looked at pictures of animals and put them into piles.
3.Teacher:Great yes, what kind of piles Josh?
4.Josh:Things like snakes and lizards, and then birds and things.
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Teacher:





Yes, that’s right, we put them into piles or groups, we classified them according to whether they were reptiles, birds, fish or mammals didn’t we? Classification is important in Science and one of the first stages of an information report is a classification statement. If I was writing about snakes, I would begin with Snakes are reptiles …


According to your textbook, the teacher's turns in #3 and in #5 are examples of:

9. The teacher is supporting the children into understanding classification systems in Science as well as how to write information reports. She is able to do so because:

10. A classroom activity that involves (i) reading or skimming for gist and purpose, (ii) reading to comprehend the text and (iii) responding to text-dependent questions designed by the teacher is known as:

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