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Essentials of Children's Lit
Chgapter 2
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Undergraduate 4
09/21/2008

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Reading Courses
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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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Accountability
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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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Independent reading
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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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Reading practice
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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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promoting reading is
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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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the best teachers....
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know their students well
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Children's interests
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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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Reading interest
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suggests a feeling one has toward particular reading material
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reading preference
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implies making a choice from two or more options
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reading choice
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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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9
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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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Readability
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an estimate of a text's difficulty based on vocabulary and sentence structure
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Conceptual difficulty
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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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reading
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What grades range in the highest decline in reading in the last twenty years?
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4th through High school
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