Pillars of Reading
Approaches to Reading Instruction
Strategies
Reading Facts
Potpourri
100

This pillar is about understanding and Communicating.

What is Comprehension?

100

Whole Language

What is Top Down?

100

This strategy has students agreeing/disagreeing to statements before they read and after they read?

What is an anticipation guide?

100

This is the grade level that is known as the Slump.

What is 4th grade?

100

What is Dr. Midcalf's granddaughter's name?

What is Avery?

200

This is the number of Pillars.

What is 5?

200

Letters - Sounds - Words

What is Bottom Up

200

This strategy has a student write something in an exact amount of words.

What is a GIST?

200

This fraction or percentage represents the number of students who will not be able to read your textbook.

What is 1/3 or 33%?

200

This is the month that Dr. Midcalf's daughter is getting married.

What is January?

300

This pillar is about prosody and accuracy.

What is Fluency?

300

The approach that Dr. Midcalf believes in.

What is Balanced (Interactive)?

300

This strategy has been taught incorrectly that makes it look like we are coloring entire text.

What is highlighting?

300

Finish the phrase: If you don't prepare your students to read then . . .

What is "we shouldn't be surprised that they didn't read?"

300

This Nursery Rhyme has a mouse running up the clock.

What is Hickory Dickory Dock?

400

This pillar is a good predictor of becoming a good reader.

What is phonological awareness (phonemic awareness)?

400

Dr. Midcalf disagrees with this Bottom Up Approach since it states that ALL readers learn to read this particular way.

What is Science of Reading?

400

The preliminary strategies are also known as this.

What are Before Reading Strategies?
400

Red, Yellow, Green should help student as they do this.

What is WRITE?

400

Text is usually divided into 2 types. Name 1.

What is informational (expository) or narrative?

500

This pillar can be taught with strategies such as Shades of Meaning or Word Sorts.

What is Vocabulary?

500

Phonics

What is Bottom Up?

500

This strategy is more than a pretty, colorful picture.

What is a graphic organizer?

500

How you believe that students learn to read is known as this.

What is "reading philosophy?"

500

This is what year of teaching for Dr. Midcalf?

What is 38????????

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