Expository Texts
Effective Teaching of Expository Texts
Content area vocabulary
Reading fluency & Comprehension
Academic Vocabulary & Word Consciousness
100
Headings, maps, charts, and table of contents are examples of this.
What is text features?
100
Creating a graphic novel as a class is an example of...
What is modeling.
100
A collection of words displayed in large visible letters.
What is a word wall?
100
Constructing meaning from text.
What is reading comprehension?
100
2,500 words per year.
How many words does a student learn each academic year?
200
This type of text structure presents information in a time order progression format?
What is sequencing?
200
These are used by students to refer back to.
What is anchor charts
200
Hints to define a difficult or unusual word.
What is context clues?
200
The ability to read a text accurately, quickly, and with expression.
What is fluency?
200
Giving students credit for finding words in context in the wild.
What is being a word wizard?
300
This type of text structure points out similarities and differences between two or more topics.
What is comparison?
300
The graphic organizer used for compare/contrast is...
What is a Venn Diagram
300
A book or electronic resource that lists words of a language.
What is a dictionary?
300
Readers experiences with the world and text.
What is background knowledge?
300
Teaching roots, prefixes, and suffixes.
What is a good way to examine vocabulary for comprehension?
400
Words that relate specifically to content area or topic.
What is technical vocabulary?
400
The following cues are used for what: because, since, so that, consequently and as a result.
What is cause & effect
400
Purposeful talk focused around topics and texts that are developmentally appropriate.
What is collaborative conversations?
400
Using information from the text to draw conclusions during reading.
What is inferencing?
400
Teaching parts of Greek and Latin.
What is a good way to teach scientific vocabulary?
500
Purpose of the text.
What is author's purpose?
500
According to the experts, these are the 5 types of expository texts..
What is compare/contrast, cause/effect, descriptive, problem/solution and sequence
500
Breaking down words into their smallest units of meaning.
What is word analysis?
500
To present important information from the text through oral reports, visual representation, media shows, or book reviews.
What is a strategy for comprehension?
500
Highlight the differences in spoken versus academic English.
What is a good way to teach the importance of academic vocabulary?
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