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  1. Narrative text structure typically includes which elements?

    Answer: Setting, characters, problem, events, resolution

    Story grammar — setting, characters, problem, events, and resolution — describes the structure of narrative texts.

  2. Which strategy helps students identify and use text features in informational texts?

    Answer: Text feature walk before reading

    A text feature walk has students preview headings, subheadings, captions, graphs, and bold words before reading to build purpose and activate knowledge.

  3. Academic language instruction should include which of the following?

    Answer: Explicit instruction in word meanings, sentence structures, and discourse patterns of academic texts

    Comprehensive academic language instruction addresses vocabulary, syntax (sentence structures), and discourse patterns that appear across content areas.

  4. Which text feature helps readers locate information in informational books quickly?

    Answer: Index

    An index is an alphabetical listing at the back of a book that directs readers to where specific topics are discussed.

  5. Syntactic complexity in academic texts refers to:

    Answer: Long, complex sentence structures with multiple clauses

    Syntactic complexity refers to long, embedded, or multi-clause sentence structures that are common in academic writing and challenging for many readers.

  6. Which instructional approach explicitly deconstructs complex sentences to help students access academic texts?

    Answer: Sentence unpacking / syntax instruction

    Sentence unpacking involves analyzing complex academic sentences to identify the main idea, subject, and modifying phrases.

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