The components are Read Aloud, Shared Reading, Guided Reading, Writing Workshop, and Word Work.
What is a Balanced Literacy Program?
100
Meeting Area, leveled texts, magnetic letters, white board markers, post-it notes, sight word cards, strategy bookmarks, "Stop Sign".
What is needed for guided reading groups to be successful?
100
Mini lesson 5-10 minutes
Workshop 45 minutes
Share 5-10 minutes
What are the components of Reader's Workshop?
100
An assessment given to determine the guided reading level of a student.
What is a PM Benchmark?
100
This little deer has a red nose and leads Santa's sleigh.
What is Rudolph the red nose reindeer?
200
Allows students an opportunity to practice and understand text.
What is guided reading?
200
Homogeneous groups of 3-6 reading the same text in a scaffolded setting using leveled readers.
What is a group for guided reading?
200
Conferring, Guided Reading, Literacy workstations, Partner reading, and responding.
What are the activities taking place during Reader's Workshop?
200
The student sits by the teacher. A text is given to read for accuracy and fluency at the beginning of a guided reading group to determine improvement.
What is a running record?
200
Mark Eads
Who is the superintendent of SMCISD?
300
This strategy allows students 3-5 minutes to reread a familiar text and to warm up their reading.
What is a familiar read?
300
15-20 minutes in small group.
What is the time allowed for guided reading time?
300
Connection, Teach, Have-a-go, Link
What is the structure of a Reader's Workshop Mini Lesson?
300
The student reads at 98% accuracy and their fluency rate is fluent for that reading level. They get 4/4 of the comprehension questions correct with a retelling score between 6-8.
What is an independent reading level?
300
The State of Texas Assessments of Academics Readiness.
What is the STAAR test?
400
The teacher uses the book to introduce the title and develop background knowledge for the text.
What is a picture walk?
400
Analyze student's reading levels using TPRI data or PM Benchmarks.
What is used to form small groups for guided reading?
400
Make thinking visible through Think Alouds, teach fix-up strategies, provide practice for skill or strategy to be used during independent work, read and model good comprehension strategies.
What is a mini lesson for Reader's Workshop?
400
Scope and sequence, Observations, Anecdotal Notes, Conferring, and Ongoing assessments of student learning.
What is how do we decide what to teach?
400
No flip flops including Yellow Box!
What is a dress code guideline implemented this school year?
500
The teacher guides the students in discussing the text during and after the text is read.
What is comprehension?
500
All centers should be demonstrated TO and practiced WITH the whole class before the students are asked to work BY themselves.
What is Gradual Release of Responsibility?
500
Research done that provides teachers with a natural way to support learners, as they become fluent, capable readers, writers and thinkers.
What is Brian Cambourne's Conditions of Learning?
500
The test measures phonemic awareness, graphophonemic knowledge, reading accuracy, fluency, and comprehension/vocabulary.
What is the TPRI?
500
Quality of instruction that requires students to construct meaning for themselves, impose structure on information, integrate indidvidual skills into processess, operate within but at the outer edge of their abilities, and apply what they learn in more than one context and to unpredictable situations. (hint...starts with the letter "R")