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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Creative Teaching, 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which student stumbled on the words "Come," "look," and "and"?
(a) Seven.
(b) Matawhero.
(c) Rangi.
(d) Gay.

2. What did the junior assistant or a senior pupil sometimes do with the younger students during shared reading?
(a) Read a story.
(b) Dance.
(c) Do a science experiment.
(d) Sing.

3. How long did many of the students' stories become by the time they were six?
(a) One page.
(b) Half a page.
(c) Three sentences.
(d) One whole paragraph.

4. How long did the reading period last?
(a) 25 minutes.
(b) 15 minutes.
(c) 45 minutes.
(d) 30 minutes.

5. What did Ashton-Warner do with the key vocabulary words that were forgotten the next day?
(a) She put the cards away for another day.
(b) She focused on teaching those words.
(c) She tried the cards with other students.
(d) She destroyed those cards.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a "pa"?

2. What did the students do if they ran out of time to write their stories in the allotted time?

3. How did Ashton-Warner "grade" the stories?

4. Where did the smaller children sometimes go during the shared reading period?

5. What was the maximum number of children Ashton-Warner felt a teacher could give individual attention to?

(see the answer key)

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