New Literacies
Before, During, and After Reading
Guiding Reading Comprehension
Vocabulary Development
Studying Texts
100
Sound, graphics, photographs, video, and other non print media which are incorporated into the hypertext format
What is hypermedia?
100
Instructional framework that can help teachers incorporate instruction strategies and activities into lessons involving content literacy and learning.
What is the B-D-A Framework?
100
Motivated, knowledgable, strategic, and socially interactive.
What are engaged readers?
100
(Fill in the blank) __________ is as unique to a content area as fingerprints are to a human being.
What is vocabulary?
100
An organization among ideas within an author's writing.
What is text structure?
200
A road map to helping students become empowered learners. These standards will deepen your practice, promote collaboration with peers, challenge you to rethink traditional approaches and prepare students to drive their own learning.
What are the ISTE Standards for Educators?
200
Chart which engages students in active text learning and allows the teacher to see what students know and want to know prior to reading of a text, and assess what students have since learned after reading.
What is a KWL Chart?
200
Three-level comprehension guides are one example of these.
What are reading guides?
200
Words that are low-frequency, but are needed to understand a content area material. They are part of the language of a subject area and unique and integral to each subject area.
What are Tier 3 words?
200
Examples of these include cause and effect guides, compare and contrast guides, selective reading guides, and Reading road maps.
What are study guides?
300
A "cyber word" which refers to the social code and rules of network communication
What is Netiquette?
300
Visual display that help learners comprehend and retain textually important information. When students know how to use these, they are in control of a study method that allows them to identify what parts of a text are important, how ideas and concepts encountered in the text are related, and where they can find specific information to support more important ideas. Can be used before, during, and/or after reading.
What are Graphic Organizers?
300
Think-Alouds, Reciprocal teaching, QARs, and QtAs are examples of these.
What are strategies for modeling comprehension?
300
(Fill in the blank) ______ create mental images, which may represent anything that can be grouped together by common features or similar criteria: objects, symbols, ideas, processes, or events.
What are concepts?
300
The process of reducing a text to its main points. There is a difference between retelling and condensing information. It is also important to write in your own words while maintaining the author’s point of view and sequence of events/ideas.
What is summarizing?
400
1. Examining what bias a site may contain
2. Determining how reliable the site is
3. Determining the accuracy of information on the site
4. Synthesizing the information presented on the site in a meaningful way
What are strategies for showing students how to Evaluate Online Resources?
400
This form of assessment contains a wide variety of methods and strategies which serve as in-process evaluations of student understanding, progress, and needs during a lesson or larger unit/course. It is meant for the teacher to gage students and make adjustments to future instruction. It can be used before or after reading.
What is formative assessment?
400
Intra-Act, DR-TA, Discussion webs, GRP, and KWL are examples of these.
What are instructional strategies?
400
What is the Frayer Model?
400
This strategy is used for comprehension and models the importance of asking questions while reading for students. Through this strategy, students learn that authors are fallible and may not always express ideas in the easiest way for readers to understand. This also builds metacognition.
What is QtA/Questioning the Author?