The Beginning
Balanced Instruction Model
Eyes and Ears
Early RTI
A Typical Day
100
This is the name of the program that is meant to prepare low-income children for Kindergarten. It comes before shoulders, knees and toes.
What is the Head Start Program
100
Hearing the different sounds in words, segmenting sounds in words, and being able to rhyme are all examples of this...
What is phonemic awareness
100
This is the ultimate goal of reading experiences, do you understand?
What is comprehension.
100
This decreases classification rates in literacy. It's also something you don't want to do too late...
What is early intervention
100
This is the theme being studied in Ms. Nero's class.
What is "Animals"
200
This is the "approximate" name for the time when a child no longer needs guidance and the teacher can allow he/she to practice skills independently.
What is the Zone of Proximal Development
200
These are the letters a child should learn to recognize first.
What are the letters in their name.
200
This is the goal of the CORI program. (Not the kind for background checks. ;)...)
What is engaging students to motivate them to read.
200
This should ideally be displayed on the wall in a literacy rich environment.
What is the theme being studied or evidence of children's growing lit development. (OR BOTH!)
200
Describe one center Ms. Nero uses in her class during center time.
What is _________________________ (answers will vary)
300
This is the term coined by Mary Clay that refers to a period in a child's life between birth and when the child can read and write conventionally.
What is Emergent Literacy
300
The beginning of this is developed when a child has some decoding skills and has a large sight-word vocabulary.
What is the beginning of reading
300
By 2030, this is the projected percentage of the school-age population within US schools that will be ELL students.
What is 40%.
300
Positive reinforcement, simple requests, the kitchen timer, the docking system, natural consequences, charting, counting for brief start behavior and cross-dialogue are the 8 techniques of what? (Wouldn't you WANT those 8 things?)
What is desirable student behavior
300
Ms. Nero will send a note home in advance describing the unit which will be taught, will for volunteers to come in, will ask parents to volunteer for read aloud and possibly bring in artifacts, and will ask for help during any time block of the day. These are all things that encourage this...
What is parent involvement
400
Vygotsky theory prominent for recognizing that children learn as a result of social interactions is called this.
What is the Theory of Social Constructivism
400
A child from a professional home will be exposed to 11.2 new words. This means that from the time they are two, a child needs to acquire this many words per day. (What a deca-dent task!)
What is 10 words per day
400
This is the most important knowledge to help ELL students. Watch your mouth!
What is vocabulary
400
Engaging in school work, cooperating with others and successfully transitioning between activities are all examples of this:
What is Starting Behaviors
400
The author believes that this is the crucial goal for children to succeed in school.
What is mandatory preschool (3 and 4 year olds) and full day mandatory kindergarten (5 year olds)
500
Froebel emphasized the importance of play as a vehicle for learning and coined the term "Kindergarten" which actually means this...(get your trowels ready)
What is "Children's Garden"
500
Research indicates that this has a positive correlation with reading success in early childhood.
What is mastering phonics skills.
500
True or False: You should only provide a variety of texts in English in your classroom if you have ELL students.
What is False! (Texts in the students' native languages should also be provided)
500
You need to consider these three things when implementing intervention programs:
What is: the children involved, the resources you have and how best to use the talent within the school
500
The children in Ms. Nero's class will do this with their monthly poems.
What is make an illustration and add it to their monthly poems collection
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