Culturally Responsive Education and Differentiation
Planning and Activities
Content Area Trivia
100
This skill is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate the individual sounds—phonemes—in spoken words
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What is phonemic awareness?
100
A term for a process that allows students to reflect on material in written form and think about what they know in the process
What is writing to learn?
100
A term used for an environment created for students to
think, speak, read and write freely. They feel comfortable.
What is safe space?
100
It is what entices students, grabs their interest and usually kicks off a unit.
What is a hook?
100
ELA: This part of speech contains words such as "the" "an" "a"
What are articles?
200
A method for reading where student use symbols to classify their reading strategies as well as recording notes on the side?
What is annotation?
200
This is an acronym for a writing structure called MEAT.
What is Main Idea, Evidence, Analysis, Tie up/Transition?
200
This woman wrote an article on "Culturally Responsive Education" that we read as a class.
Who is Schmidt?
200
It is large, overarching, broad and interdisciplinary and drives your unit.
What is an essential question?
200
SS: a type of source that comes directly from the time period and is a first hand account such as an interview, a legislative bill or a speech.
What is a primary source?
300
A student can read out loud impeccably, with few errors and at a fast rate is said to have this reading trait. *BTW, it doesn't mean that he/she can comprehend.
What is fluency?
300
An activity that promotes student writing and ideas without speaking.
What is a silent conversation?
300
This term refers to grouping, sorting students in different ways (based on readiness, student choice, interests and other things). The point is that the groups change and are not fixed.
What is flexible grouping?
300
It is the method for backwards planning and helps teachers think of the end product and work their way towards the culminating project.
What is understanding by design?
300
Science: A sustainable method of growing plants top down instead of laterally. (Can be done with bottles along a window)
What is vertical farming?
400
A method of reading where the student is engaged in the text. He/she reacts with questions, striking passages etc. He/she is involved in the reading process?
What is active reading?
400
A practice to teach vocabulary by placing a neutral word in the middle and creating extremes on either side of the word to help students cultivate more vocabulary for common words such as "walk", "look", "say".
What is a vocabulary continuum?
400
One of 9 characteristics of differentiation. It is mostly accomplished informally through observation, conferencing, exit tickets etc.
What is ongoing assessment?
400
An activity where students cannot be in a neutral space and they place themselves on a continuum and take a stance.
What is 'Walk the Line'?
400
This acronym PBAT stands for an alternative assessment for Regents exams.
What is a Performance Based Assessment Task?
500
A set of benchmarks for teachers to follow nationally that now focuses heavily on non-fiction reading.
What are the common core learning standards?
500
These are the 6 writing traits.
What are Ideas, Organization,??Voice, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, Conventions?
500
This person was quoted to say,
"To any citizen of this country who figures himself as responsible – and particularly those of you who deal with the minds and
hearts of young people –must be prepared to “go for broke.”
Who is James Baldwin?
500
A conversation fully facilitated by students where they ask probing questions, discuss a text critically and note striking passages
What is a socratic seminar?
500
Math: A type of algebraic math that uses more than one equation to find a solution such as:
4x + 8y = 20
−4x + 2y = −30