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The sixth-grade students in Kathy Smyth’s class gathered many facts about the Vikings, but they had difficulty preparing an organized presentation. In this situation, it would be most helpful for the teacher to present a minilesson on __________.  

Punctuation marks signal grammatical boundaries and ________________.

Sixth-grade students in Nancy Loving’s class did not use context clues when they encountered unfamiliar words. The most effective way to teach these students about context clues would be to __________.

Because research suggests that students learn many words incidentally, teachers at the Crane Elementary School have wisely decided to __________.

A student’s ability to determine the meaning of new words is helped by his __________.

A teacher selected 5 fiction titles, gave a book talk about each, and then posted sign-up sheets so that each student could select the book he or she wanted to read. This class was prepared to participate in ___________.

Ten-year-old Matthew selects books from the classroom library, reads independently, and has conferences with his teacher. Matthew is most likely participating in __________.

To help students undeerstand the 4 types of sentences, they particpated in an activity known as __________.

After reading a novel, a group of students selected several related words and classified them by using a grid. That activity is known as a __________.

Research suggests that students are more likely to understand connections among big ideas when they __________.