Read It!A former lawyer, Erin Kenny elected to pursue a new career after reading a book called Last Child in the Woods. The author asserted that children benefit considerably from spending time in nature and that a modern lifestyle suffused with technology undermines their creativity and stunts their growth. This notion inspired Kenny to relinquish her old job and establish Cedarsong Forest School. She contends that preschool-age children should be encouraged to explore by themselves rather than passively receive instruction in mathematics or reading. Kenny and her assistant teacher leverage children's natural curiosity for instructional opportunities. In her school, the children, not the teachers, determine the agenda for each day.Do It!Kenny's school is _________.Press enter to interact with the item, and press tab button or down arrow until reaching the Submit button once the item is selectedA resourcefulB unconventionalC overcrowdedD disreputable

Read the comprehension and answer the following question.Research shows that young children who are read to on a regular basis will grow up to be better readers. When children sit in their parent's lap and listen to stories, they are learning about the pleasures of reading and the patterns of language. When you see children turning the pages of a book, looking at the pictures, and telling the story, often from memory, they are engaged in what is called emergent literacy. Parents can foster this early language and literacy development by talking with their children, telling them stories, reading to them every day, and surrounding them with books.Q. Emergent literacy is best defined asreading to children every daythe practice of pretend readingearly language and reading developmentpatterns of language

Read the following passage:"You're not here to read books, you're here to learn!" The Childwrangler's voice screeched as we kept our picks moving rhythmically against the school walls. We had all heard about a time, back in the dark ages, when children read books at school. They say school was even a building above ground. But that was obviously dangerous. How could society thrive if the children sat around reading all day? When would they have time to learn about veins of coal, support structures, processing fuel, and all that stuff? School was important.Which two central ideas in this story are most closely related?A.Humankind's basic survival needs and independenceB.The nature of learning and societal dysfunctionC.The power of rumors and abuse of authorityD.The importance of literature and the dangers of miningSUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

Category: Verbal AbilityRead the comprehension and answer the following questions.Research shows that young children who are read to on a regular basis will grow up to be better readers. When children sit in their parent's lap and listen to stories, they are learning about the pleasures of reading and the patterns of language. When you see children turning the pages of a book, looking at the pictures, and telling the story, often from memory, they are engaged in what is called emergent literacy. Parents can foster this early language and literacy development by talking with their children, telling them stories, reading to them every day, and surrounding them with books.Q. The writer's main point is thatpretend reading is one of the first steps toward learning how to readparents should read to their children every daychildren must learn the alphabet before they can learn to readparents should buy their children lots of books

Children’s books constitute one of the largest segments of the international literary market. Books that are English-language classics in the United States, such as Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are, have been translated into dozens of other languages. Because children’s books typically center illustrations and use simple words, they may seem easy to translate. However, based on a recent series of interviews with children’s book translators, a culture journalist claims that children’s books can actually be very difficult to translate.Which quotation from the interviews best illustrates the journalist’s claim? “With so few words on every page, every translated word has to get across the exact right meaning, tone, and sonic quality; otherwise the book loses its magic.”eliminate“Children books as a medium have gotten much more popular over the years, which has also led to increased demand for these titles to be published in other languages.”eliminate“Conveying the childlike humor and silliness on the page in a new language always holds surprises and reveals new dimensions to the same story.”eliminate “Children’s books are unique among literature because they are designed to be read out loud.”

Select the correct answer.Read the following excerpt from Eleanor Roosevelt’s speech “What Libraries Mean to the Nation.”I know one place in the northern part of the state where I camped for a while in the summer, and I went to the school and talked to the teachers. They are using school books which have been passed down from one child to another. They have practically no books outside of the textbooks. The children in the district are so poor and some of them so pathetic that I suppose the struggle to live has been so great you could not think much about what you fed the mind, but I came away feeling that right there, in one of the biggest and richest states in the country, we had a big area that needed books and needed libraries to help these schools in the education of the children, and, even more, to help the whole community to learn to live through their minds.We are doing a tremendous amount through the home economics colleges to help people to learn how to live in their homes, to better their standards of material living. We have got to think in exactly the same way about helping them to live mentally and to attain better standards, and we can do it only through the children. We can do ground work with the children; we must begin with them; but we have got to do a tremendous amount with the older people.What is one central idea of Roosevelt’s writing? A. the need to prioritize learning over other material concerns B. the need for libraries in order to help improve people’s overall quality of life C. the need to educate parents and children about the value of books D. the need for efforts that are focused on teaching children to read