Which of the following is the best reason for using flexible grouping in the reading classroom?
A.Flexible grouping allows teachers to tailor instruction
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B.Flexible grouping ensures opportunities for students to have discussions around a common text
with their peers.
C.Flexible grouping allows students to get comfortable working with the same group of peers
throughout the school year.
D.Flexible grouping provides time for students to progress through a set of materials. ✔✔Option
(A) is correct. When teachers use flexible grouping they are considering the always-changing
strengths and weaknesses of students and they can group the students temporarily to best meet
instructional needs. The other options do not address the main purpose of using flexible grouping.
Which of the following is the primary purpose of a norm-referenced test?
A.Interpreting a student's performance using set criteria
B.Measuring how well a student has learned content-specific knowledge and skills
C.Indicating where a student performs in comparison to a group of similar students
D.Evaluating a student's performance compared to a standard ✔✔Option (C) is correct. Normreferenced tests allow a student's skills to be compared with the skills of other students in a similar
age group. These tests are developed by administering a set of test items to a group of students;
the performance of those in the norming group is used as a basis for comparison.A student at the conventional stage of writing development will primarily write
A. a combination of letters, symbols, and shapes in random order
B. words that are often correctly spelled and include storybook language such as "Once upon a
time"
C. sentences without including spacing between words or awareness of punctuation marks
D. words represented by only the initial and ending consonants ✔✔Option (B) is correct because
students in the conventional stage of writing development have a basic grasp of writing words. At
this stage they are ready to write with a purpose, such as telling a story. Storybook language is
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