Learning with Trade Books
Using these in the classroom can challenge and stimulate student thinking on a range of important issues with particular relevance to the world today.
What is the use of trade books?
Before, During, and After Reading.
What does BDA stand for?
Identify an unknown word, look for the words that give hints about its meaning in the sentence, read the sentences before and after the one with the word in it, infer the word's meaning based on what you found.
What are context clues?
First-hand account of history such as newspapers, letters, speeches, songs, etc.
What is a primary source?
Formative Assessment
What is an assessment for learning?
what is nonfiction?
Builds students prior knowledge for a lesson and presents key vocabulary and concepts that are essential to preparation before reading.
What is a Before Reading Activity?
low frequency, specialized words that may appear in specific fields or content areas.
What are Tier 3 words?
scholarly books and articles relating to a primary source. For example, a biography of a president.
What is a secondary source?
Summative Assessment
What is an assessment of learning?
easy-to-read titles on a range of topics relevant to today's content area classroom. They often respond positively to short books, series books, and graphic novels.
What are books for Unmotivated Readers?
Activities that extend thinking about ideas encountered during reading.
What is an after-reading activity?
Steps:
1) say the word
2) Look for clues as to what the word may mean.
3) ask yourself what the word might mean?
4) Put the word in the text, does it make sense?
What is the SLAP model?
The analysis and subsequent essay response to a primary source.
What is a document based question?
Includes Admit slips, exit slips, and graphic organizers.
What is a formative assessment?
Considered by experts to be the single most important activity in developing student literacy ability, regardless of age.
What are teacher read-alouds?
A graphic organizer that students utilize prior to reading in order to anticipate what the lesson is about. The student then answers the graphic organizer at the end of the lesson to see what they have learned.
What is an anticipation guide?
a graphic organizer containing the following sections:
What is it? (category; main concept)
What is it like? (several properties)
What are some examples (several illustrations)
New Definition
What is a concept definition map?
Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" speech is an example of this.
What is literacy through primary sources?
Includes essays, projects, and high stakes tests.
What is a summative assessment?
Asking students to write a reflection on the mental connections they make between the texts they are reading to their own lives.
What is reflective writing?
Students are put into 4 learning groups. Each of the four is then assigned a sub-topic related to whatever the topic of the class is discussing. This is a before, during and after reading activity.
What is a jigsaw?
Basic Components:
Definition
Facts/Characteristics
Examples
Non-examples
What is the Frayer Model?
A check for understanding following a lesson on World War II prior to the end of class.
What is an exit slip?
The SAT or ACT.
What is an assessment of learning?