Talk the Talk: Language, Culture & ELLs
This term describes students using all their language resources to make meaning.
What is translanguaging?
Text leveling determines how _____ or _____ a text is.
What is easy or challenging?
This assessment codes and analyzes reading behaviors in real time.
What is a Running Record?
This theory states that learners build new knowledge through experience.
What is constructivism?
This approach blends whole language and phonics instruction.
What is balanced literacy?
Books that reflect a student’s own identity are called these.
What are mirror texts?
Counting words, syllables, and sentence length falls under this type of text measure.
What are quantitative measures?
Running Records were created by this researcher.
Who is Marie Clay?
The knowledge and experiences readers bring to a text are known as these.
What are schemata (schema)?
These three cueing systems include graphophonemic, syntactic, and this meaning-based system.
What is semantic?
Sentence stems and modeling academic phrases support this critical language skill.
What is academic language (or oral language) development?
Considering a student’s motivation and background knowledge, considering what they're being asked to do with the text is part of this text-leveling component.
What are reader and task considerations?
This type of passage focuses mainly on rate and accuracy, unlike Running Records.
What is a fluency passage?
This is the act of thinking about your own thinking while reading.
What is metacognition?
A model of reading that starts with phonics and decoding is called this.
What is bottom-up?
Allowing a student to brainstorm in one language and write in another supports which instructional approach?
What is translanguaging pedagogy?
Evaluating theme complexity and language clarity is part of this component.
What are qualitative measures?
Running Records capture both errors and these positive reading actions. "If at first you don't succeed, dust yourself off and try again."
What are self-corrections?
Asking students to verbalize their thinking during a read-aloud models this process.
What is a think-aloud (metacognition modeling)?
This approach uses personal experiences and oral storytelling to generate text for reading.
What is the Language Experience Approach (LEA)?
When classroom texts help students see into others’ experiences, this concept is at work.
What are windows?
These three components together form the framework used to determine a text’s overall complexity.
What are qualitative, quantitative, and reader/task measures?
The specific record of meaning, structure, and visual cues used during a Running Record is known by this term.
What are MSV cues (or cueing systems)?
When students revise their prior knowledge to fit new information, they are modifying this internal system.
What is their schema?
This learning disability involves difficulty with decoding due to differences in the brain’s language processing.
What is dyslexia?