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

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

In this humorous newspaper article, the writer voices some of their concerns about what children experience when they go to school. All of us wrap up our children when it’s cold. We put them on booster seats in the car and make them wear helmets when they’re on a bicycle. We strive constantly to keep them out of harm’s way, and then we send them off to school so they can be tortured. I suppose we all think, rather naively, that school today is exactly the same as school back in our day, except that children are now allowed calculators. I’m afraid not. School today is completely different. There’s very little bullying, and no smoking behind the bike sheds because there’s no time, not when you need to be fluent in 17 languages by age four and you’ve got those pesky quadratic cosines to finish off by break. I’m not kidding. I do not understand any of my son’s maths homework. And what’s more, I bet he knows more about advanced mathematics now, at the age of10, than most of the NASA scientists did when they put Armstrong on the moon. My daughter, who already knows Latin better than Julius Caesar, comes home from school at 18.00 every night, bleary eyed from the pressure. But before she can collapse into bed she has to do four half-hour pieces of homework. Supper? Internet? A bit of light texting? Forget it. On the basis that a parent can only be as happy as their least happy child, this makes me pretty miserable. She’s not alone, either. I read the other day that a four-year-old child had been diagnosed with ‘stress’ and I’m not surprised. Perhaps she’d been made to miss her playtime so she could finish her paper on how the gross domestic product of Iceland was affected by EU fish quotas. A child I know was sent home from school recently with a note saying that by the age of 10 she really should have a rudimentary grasp of quantum physics and that because she didn’t she must have some extra tuition. Unfortunately, on the back of this hurriedly written note the teacher had been doing some sums. There was a list of every child who was having extra lessons, how much each parent was paying and at the end, under the total he’d written, ‘Yippee’. When I was at school I remember being told that if I spelt my name properly on my examination paper I’d be halfway there. Exams were a hiccup in the day, not the be-all and end-all of absolutely everything. Based on those exams, we now have ‘league tables’, a handy guide to how well each school performs. But publishing a list of ‘best schools’ purely on the grounds of academic achievement is idiotic. It tells you nothing. Recently, I made a decision on which secondary school my children will attend. I chose it because I know several people who’ve been there, and they loved it. I chose it because the children I saw mooching from lesson to lesson were mostly smiling. I chose it because it ‘felt’ right. Of course, I want my children to leave school with a basic academic foundation. But more than thatI want them to learn social skills so they can interact properly with other human beings. I want themto learn to play the guitar. I want them to enjoy school, to have fun. I can’t bear the thought of paying a small fortune every year so they can be put on a treadmill. School is supposed to prepare a person for life, not wear them out. This is what we all seem to have forgotten. Yes, we must do everything we can to keep our children safe. But we should also do everything we can to make them happy as well.

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

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

Teachers can talk to children about what to expect in kindergarten, read books about going to school, and even role-play. This can help alleviate any fears or anxieties children might have about starting kindergarten. implementing a daily routine, too help children understand the concept of time and what is expected of them at certain times of the day. This can include having set times for activities like reading, playing, eating, and napping. Teachers can organize group activities that encourage children to interact, share, and cooperate with others. So children learn how to communicate, resolve conflicts, and work as a team, which are essential skills for kindergarten. Teachers can communicate regularly with parents about their child's progress and what they can do at home to support their child's preparation for kindergarten. To help ensure that the child is getting consistent support both at school and at home turn this into a discussion response