MsMoreno Works with Students at the Upper Elementary School Level

question 11

Multiple Choice

Ms.Moreno works with students at the upper elementary school level who are struggling to comprehend what they read in the content areas.Today,a group of her students is reading a passage in geography.After reading,one student pretends to be the teacher and asks the other three to summarize the passage.Next,the students generate questions to ask one another about the main idea.Then they clarify anything that was confusing and make predictions about what they will learn in the next section of the text.What procedure are these students using?

• A)Inquiry
• B)Reciprocal teaching
• C)Cognitive apprenticeship
• D)Embodied cognition

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Definitions:

Operant Conditioning

A learning process in which the frequency of an organism's behavior is modified by reinforcement or punishment.

Positive Reinforcement

A process in operant conditioning where a behavior is followed by a rewarding stimulus, increasing the likelihood of that behavior occurring again.

Cognitive Schema

Mental structures that an individual uses to organize knowledge and guide cognitive processes and behavior.

Stereotype

A common yet rigid and simplistic representation or notion of a specific kind of individual or object.