Foundations
Anything that conveys a message.
What is text?
Dialogue between at least two people.
What is talk?
What are text features?
A 4-square model for exploring definitions, characteristics, examples, and non-examples
What is a Frayer Model?
A before-during-after strategy where students write what they already know, want to learn, and later reflect on what they learned.
What is K-W-L?
The ways that people read, write, and think that are specific to a discipline.
What is disciplinary literacy?
Opportunities to get up and walk around.
What is movement?
Compare/contrast, description, problem-solution, sequence, question-answer are examples.
What are text structures?
What are non-linguistic representations?
A before-during-after strategy where students answer questions based on what they know before reading and then revise their answers after reading.
What is an anticipation guide?
The ability to understand the meaning of text.
What is reading comprehension?
Ability to pick what is most interesting from more than one option.
Choice
A Venn Diagram is a good tool for teaching this type of text structure.
What is compare/contrast?
Competitive ways to practice word knowledge.
What are vocabulary games?
This visual tool helps represent information and relationships between ideas, facts, or concepts.
What is a graphic organizer?
Everything we understand and believe about a topic--our background knowledge.
What is schema?
Who students are--how they see themselves and are seen by others.
What is identity?
What is text coding (or annotation)?
A discussion strategy where sentence stems provide support for academic language.
What is accountable talk?
Breaking up a text into chunks and having partners take turns summarizing and clarifying each chunk.
What is read-pair-share?
the level of challenge a text provides based its quantitative features, its qualitative features, and
reader/text factors.
What is text complexity?
connections to love, humanity, truth, beauty, aesthetics, art, and wonder and working to solve social problems of the world
What is joy?
Students use texts to investigate compelling questions in this curricular approach.
What is inquiry?
A discussion strategy where students are grouped as experts and then regrouped to share their knowledge.
What is jigsaw?
Looking for specific information in a text and highlighting the evidence related to that information.
What is color coding?