CHAPTER 10 ASSESSMENTS
THE LITERACY – SOCIAL STUDIES CONNECTION
I. MULTIPLE CHOICE (CHOOSE THE ONE BEST RESPONSE.)
1. In the socials studies children read and write to:
a. Encourage self expression.
b. Practice handwriting.
c. Create maps and globes.
d. Build and express understanding.
2. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of apprenticeships?
a. Learners enter into a new task “on their own.”
b. Learners are coached by a more capable person.
c. Practice occurs as learners accomplish all or part of a task with assistance.
d. Coaching decreases as the learner’s capability increases.
3. What is informational literacy?
a. Reading or writing texts in order to function in everyday life.
b. Reading or writing texts to gather data about the world.
c. Reading or writing texts for pleasure.
d. Reading or writing texts to gain self understanding.
4. The special reading skills unique to the social studies should be taught:
a. In relation to the subject matter under study.
b. Exclusive of content.
c. Through individualized instruction.
d. None of the above.
5. Graphic organizers, such as the data-organization chart emphasized throughout the text, plus
foldables, semantic maps, etc., are especially helpful to ELs because:
a. ELs’ learning style is not linguistic.
b. Some especially fortunate ELs are working on their 3rd or 4th language.
c. Imagery can capture and simplify a bunch of confusing words.
d. ELs tend to be drawers rather than writers.
6. Why should parts of a textbook (text structure) be taught?
a. So students can better comprehend what they are reading.
b. So students can write a textbook themselves.
c. A literate person must know them.
d. This is a good way to teach spelling and grammar.
7. How do seminars deepen students’ comprehension of texts?
a. By having them make semantic maps of the text’s main idea.
b. By involving them in interpretation and discussion.
c. By teaching them to preview and skim.
d. By teaching them to summarize.
8. Which of the following is NOT something a teacher can do to enhance what a student brings
to a reading situation?
a. Increasing a child’s intellectual aptitude.
b. Capitalizing on the child’s knowledge and cultural experience that is brought to the
reading situation.
c. Building the child’s knowledge of important components of the reading process.
d. Establishing clear purposes for reading tasks.
9. What is the purpose, according to the text author, for using children’s trade books in social
studies?
a. To launch a unit.
b. To help students gather information from multiple perspectives.
c. To take the place of a textbook, maps and globes, and primary resources.
d. Both A and B.
10. The author recommends that multiple perspectives be routinely examined in the social
studies classroom. What teaching strategy becomes a routine part of this?
a. Direct instruction.
b. Classifying.
c. Compare and contrast.
d. Story boards.
II. SEMANTIC MAP
Choose a social studies topic (immigration; rivers of the world; Mexico), and sketch a semantic
map that displays your present knowledge of this topic. Then make additions to this map that
will indicate the ways you would like your knowledge of this topic to grow in depth and breadth.
III. SHORT ANSWER
What reading skills are particularly essential to social studies learning? Select two, explain why
they are essential, and describe at least one method you would use to help students develop the
skill.
IV. EXTENDED RESPONSE
You have agreed to give a one hour workshop on using trade books in the elementary social
studies program at the state social studies conference. Your presentation is supposed to address
V. DISCUSSION
Discuss the following issue with a group of classmates. Then, use one of the rubrics found in
CHAPTER 10 THE LITERACY-SOCIAL STUDIES CONNECTION