DOMAIN IV/ASSIGNMENT B
Use the information below to complete the
exercise that follows.
A sixth-grade teacher
substitutes blank spaces for several nouns, verbs,
adjectives, and adverbs in a newspaper article and
distributes copies of the modified text to her students.
Students work in pairs to determine reasonable and
logical words that could fill in the blanks.
Examinee Task
Using your knowledge
of English language structures, write a response in
which you explain one way that the activity described
above can enhance the students' reading development.
Sample Response for
Assignment B—Domain IV
Evaluation of Sample
Response
Assignment B assesses
one or more competencies in Domain IV. The response
fulfills the purpose of the assignment by using knowledge
of English language structures to explain how the
instructional activity described can enhance students’
reading development. The response reflects an accurate
understanding of the role of syntactic and semantic
cues in enhancing reading comprehension. Support for
the writer’s argument is found in a clear explanation
of connections involving a reader’s ability to
use syntactic cues and language rules/structures when
reading, the reader’s ability to "chunk"
text, and the reader’s fluency and comprehension.
Sample
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