A second-grade teacher regularly reviews spelling patterns previously taught. The teacher also provides students with multiple opportunities to read and write connected text that features words containing the spelling patterns and to engage in word sorts comparing new and previously taught spelling patterns. These types of instructional activities are likely to promote students’ reading skills primarily by developing their: 

The digestive system organs which have food moving through them make up a passageway called the __________________________ canal.

Having kindergarten children practice tracing the letters of the alphabet in sand is most appropriate for children who need additional support in: 

Which of the following principles is best illustrated by the words watched, wanted, and warned? 

A second-grade teacher frequently conducts spelling inquiry workshops with students to deepen their understanding of various orthographic guidelines. For example, in one inquiry, the teacher gives students a set of words that follow the silent-e syllable pattern and that include the inflectional ending -ing, -ed, or -s. Students work with a classmate to sort the base words according to whether the word drops the silent e when adding the inflection. After sorting the words, the students must analyze each list to generate a rule describing the conditions that require and e-drop. The following is a completed chart by one pair of students.  What is the rule for dropping silent e? Inflected words WITH an e-drop Inflected words WITHOUT an e-drop shaking staring baking shakes stares bakes shared biked hoped shares bikes hopes smiling joked living smiles jokes lives Some pairs of students, such as the pair whose work is shown, correctly sort the words, but the still cannot generate an orthographic rule for when to drop the silent e. The teacher could best support these students by prompting them to: 

Which term literally means abnormal condition of gall stones?

A third-grade teacher is planning differentiated reading instruction for an entering-level English learner who has grade-level reading skills in a language that uses the Roman alphabet. The teacher could best accelerate the student’s progress in reading English by using which of the following approaches? 

Find the Exact Value of

Which of the following can be placed into a broad category called acid rain?

Figs above indicated that: A lack of ozone is dangerous because result in an increasing _____ and decreasing _______ in which of the following components of the accompanying figure on the land surface?       O3 layer.jpg