All students make sense of new learning situations by linking what they know with what they are being taught.
What is the constructivist theory.
100
Emphasizes learning the names of each letter of the alphabet and the various sounds associated with the letters.
What is the phonics approach
100
Framework for identifying students with diverse needs and for providing instructional services with a multi-tiered system of support.
What is RTI
100
1) The silent stage
2) The early production stage
3) The productive language stage
4) The intermediate fluency stage
What is stages of English language development
100
Involves four basic literacies: technological literacy, visual literacy, media literacy, and informational literacy.
What is multimodal communication
200
The difference between what a learner can do without help and what he or she can do with help. It is a concept introduced, yet not fully developed.
What is zone of proximal development
200
Emphasizes the importance of students first learning letter names and sounds, followed by simple words that are easily decoded, and then reading stories that consist of these easily decoded words.
What is part-to-whole model
200
Originally enacted by Congress in 1975 to ensure that children with disabilities have the opportunity to receive a free appropriate public education, just like other children.
What is IDEA
200
The student dictates to the teacher. The teacher is the scribe writing down the exact words the child says.
What is the language experience approach (LEA)
200
The ability to read and manipulate all types of digital resources such as computers, interactive whiteboards, tablets, etc.
What is technological literacy
300
Maslow's theory: often represented in a hierarchical pyramid with five levels. The most basic needs must be satisfied before needs further up on the hierarchy can be addressed.
What is hierarchy of human needs
300
Emphasizes identifying patterns in words. Focuses on two distinctive parts of each word; the onset and rime.
What is the linguistic approach
300
Designed for teachers to reflect on their personal views of reading instruction.
What is TORP
300
A way of scaffolding English learners as they learn the social skills of the classroom, such as taking turns, waiting for one's turn, sharing classroom equipment.
What is sheltered instruction (SI)
300
The ability to read, interpret, and create images and icons on tool bars, videos, photographs, graphs, charts, and maps.
What is visual literacy
400
Gives students the ability to read texts in an active, reflective manner in order to better understand power, inequality, and injustice in human relationships.
What is critical literacy theory
400
Children are first taught the words that will appear in a story they are about to read. The goal is for children to automatically recognize large sets of words.
What is sight word approach
400
English learners recite key vocabulary words, spell them, and act out their meaning so that they comprehend the difference between similar-sounding words.
What is TPR total physical response
400
Teacher and students read together so that English learners can hear the pronunciation and be actively involved in the reading process.
What is choral reading
400
Requires students to read, create, manipulate, analyze, and evaluate messages conveyed through images, narration, text, and music in a variety of media modes.
What is media literacy
500
Encourages students to use elements of logical analysis. *Not a theory but needed another vocabulary work*
What is critical reading
500
Integrates skills with literature-based reading and process-writing instruction. Teachers generally show students how language works by utilizing authentic texts and authentic writing goals.
What is the comprehensive approach
500
BICS refers to English learners' ability to be fluent in personal conversation, while CALP refers to their ability to....
What is read and write at the academic level of their peers.
500
The teacher and students share the pen. Teachers do most of the writing; however, when they recognize that a student knows the initial letter or the spelling of the entire word, the student writes the letter or word.
What is interactive writing
500
The ability to find, evaluate, analyze, and synthesize information from multiple sources, including the Internet.