Acid Rain
Bottom Up/Top Down
Pillars of Reading
Theories/Theorist
Potpourri
100

The country Acid Rain was discovered.

What is England?

100

The swinging of this perfectly describes how we go from bottom up to top down and back to bottom up appraches.

What is a pendulum?

100

This pillar contains prosody, rate, and accuracy.

What is fluency?

100

Prealphabetic, Partial Alphabetic, Full Alphabetic, Consolidated Alphabetic

What is Ehri's Stage Model of Reading?

100

Constructivism supports this type of reading approach.

What is Top Down?

200

The year Acid Rain was discovered.

What is 1872?

200

Letters to Words to Sentences

What is Bottom Up?

200

Comprehension is understanding as well as this.

What is communicating?

200

The name of the Wizard in Gough's Model of Reading.

What is Merlin?

200

This percentage or fraction of students that most likely not be able to read your textbook.

What is 1/3 or 33%?

300

The name of the man who discovered Acid Rain.

Who is Angus Smith?

300

Whole Language

What is Top Down?

300

This pillar contains beginning, middle, and ending sounds.

What is phonological awareness?

300

The theory that incorporates active student learning and background knowledge.

What is Constructivism?

300

The term used to know what grade level a text truly is.

What is readability?

400

If students do not read the text given to them, then the teacher probably did not do this.

What is prepare them to read?

400

Science of Reading

What is Bottom Up?

400

This pillar contains meanings of words.

What is Vocabulary?

400

The folders in our head that store our knowledge.

What is Schema?

400

The incentive program that Dr. Midcalf despises where students may only read certain book such as a blue dot book or a yellow dot book.

What is Accelerated Reader?

500

This made you want to read the text about Acid Rain.

What is curiosity?

500

Dr. Midcalf is this.

What is balanced?

500

This pillar is foundational for the Bottom Up approach for teaching reading.

What is Phonics?

500

Thinking about our thinking.

What is metacognition?

500

Dr. Midcalf's Did You Know example in which the journalist did not know how to spell a certain word so he used a different word that has stuck ever since.

What is a hot dog?

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