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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 destroyed those cards.
(d) She tried the cards with other students.

2. What was Ashton-Warner's response to the problems with the set early readers?
(a) She asked the families to provide better books.
(b) She wrote the books for her students.
(c) She used existing Maori texts.
(d) The students wrote their own books.

3. To what Dickens novel character did Ashton-Warner refer in "Maori Transitional Readers?"
(a) Oliver Twist.
(b) Tiny Tim.
(c) David Copperfield.
(d) Jean Valjean.

4. What philosopher said that language must precede a nation's formation?
(a) Voltaire.
(b) Plato.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Aristotle.

5. What was Helen Keller's first word?
(a) Water.
(b) Pump.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What educational thinker was quoted at the beginning of "Organic Writing"?

2. What activity was NOT included under the 2:10-3 p.m. time slot under "Daily Rhythm"?

3. What were the two main instincts around which the key vocabulary was built?

4. What did Ashton-Warner call the most "comely word" in the language?

5. What did the junior assistant or a senior pupil sometimes do with the younger students during shared reading?

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