What is the name of the highway that the refugee immagrants of the westward movement traveled on?
100
The process of thinking about one's own thinking.
What is metacognition. Bonus: Why is it important to use in the classroom?
100
Two activities a teacher can use to portray the Schema Theory in the classroom.
What are webbing and KWL charts
100
The generation that entered school at the beginning of this era, which caused schools to become overcrowded.
What is "Baby Boomers"
100
This is an efferent response.
What is a factual response.
200
This theory emphasizes the use of predictions while reading.
What is Psycholinguistic Theory
200
Three of the fix-up strategies that proficient readers use.
What are rereading, slowing down, or looking up word meanings.
200
This theory would use follow-up activities such as response journals or story maps.
What is Transactional / Reader Response.
200
The four guys from Liverpool who burst on to American airwaves and created "mania" in 1964.
Who are The Beatles?
200
This theory is problem based.
What is Inquiry Learning.
300
The three language cueing systems that are used in the Psycholinguistic Theory.
What are Syntactic, Semantic, and Graphophonic
300
The steps a teacher should take to effectively teach metacognition
What are explicit instruction,modeling, and the gradual release of responsibility.
300
Name three strategies included under Whole Language Theory.
What are any of the following:
1. High quality literature
2. Meaningful contexts
3. Child center instruction
4. Student choice
5. Thematic instruction
6. Social learning experiences
7. Teachable moments
8. Variety of grouping
9. Large blocks of time for literacy activities
10. Alternative systems of assessment
11. Centers
300
The book that criticized American education during this era and caused the government and parents to look more closely at public school education.
What is "Why Johnny Can't Read".
300
One important characteristic of the Schema Theory.
What is schema is individualized. Schema is also pliant and expandable.
Bonus: Why is this characteristic important to utilize in the classroom?
400
One objective of the Whole Language Theory is to development a student's ability to read and write. True or False?
What is True.
400
Three of the components that describe an engaged reader.
What are intrinsically motivated (read frequently), mentally active (use metacognitive strategies), frequently social (talking about what they're reading and learning).
400
The theorist who supportive the idea for the classroom “ . . .the varying levels of literature infusion stimulated corresponding levels of curiosity and interest in the students.”
Who is John Dewey
400
This book, written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak, was controversial when it came out in 1963 but won the Caldecott Medal in 1964 and has become a children's classic.
What is "Where the Wild Things Are".
400
This man developed a vaccine for Polio in 1955.
Who is Dr. Jonas Salk
500
The Psycholinguistic Theory is classified as behaviorist in nature. True or False?
What is False - it is constructivist.
500
All the components of CORI (Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction).
What are 1) themes in reading instruction 2) student choice for both reading text and responses 3) hands-on activities 4) wide variety of genres 5) social collaboration. Bonus: Why should teachers use all five components in their classrooms?
500
A popular activity for Transactional/Reader Response Theory is drawing students attention to the use of three different _________.
What are connections (text to self, text to text, text to world)
500
This genre became more popular and had many more titles added to its collection during the late 1950s due to the very real possibility of space travel.
What is Science Fiction.
500
This theory defines itself as “mechanism of associative learning”.