EDCI 3000
Quiz #3
Keri Cox
[Quiz Three:]
Now that you have experienced presentations from all four learning teams,
please share with me an activity from each category that you would feel
comfortable using in your classroom.
Explain how you would use it and
determine what standards you'd be addressing with the activity.
1.
Prereading activities are assigned for many reasons. First, they support
comprehension by increasing the student’s understanding of the text
by expanding and growing on the student’s existing knowledge of the
topic. These activities spark an interest in the reading selection while
also prompting the students to set a purpose for reading. Prereading
activities engage students by: pushing them to approach the reading
with a desire to learn more, stimulating personal responses to text,
answering self-posed questions, determining a character’s way of

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- Fall '12
- Trousdale
- Keri Cox