Research suggests that phonics should be taught within a balanced approach and that phonics instruction should be completed by:

When Stephen George accepted a job as a teacher, the principal correctly advised him to:

The teacher gave the students a political cartoon that showed the newly elected governor wearing an elegant gown as she stepped out of Cinderella’s pumpkin coach. By comparing the new governor to Cinderella, the cartoonist made a (n):

To plan instruction, new teacher Brooke Hippert needed to know which writing strategies her students could already use effectively. Of the following, the best way for a teacher to determine which writing strategies students can use is to:

The smallest units of sound are called:

When he read drafts of their stories, third-grade teacher Richard McCall noticed that his students did not use quotation marks correctly. This teacher should:

Of the following, the most effective way to link social studies instruction with language arts instruction would be to encourage students to:

Students’ understanding about the purposes of reading and writing:

The sixth-grade students in Kathy Smyth’s class gathered many facts about the Vikings, but they had difficulty preparing an organized presentation. In this situation, it would be most helpful for the teacher to present a minilesson on __________.  

Punctuation marks signal grammatical boundaries and ________________.