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Originally Posted by sbscout
The directions say to locate which guidewords in the dictionary would include the given words. An educated guess is that the class the child is in is practicing using a dictionary, therefore the definition of 'guide words' was given to him in class. As a teacher, my experience has been that 10-year-olds will look straight into your eyes and say they understand the directions but have absolutely no clue as to what they are supposed to do.
The correlation was there - it just didn't make it all the way home until he had to do his homework.  |
Perhaps I misread SiN's comment; it seemed to me there was a jab in there at the adults discussing this question on the boards. That's where my comment was directed.