The following is one of the conditions of Camborne’s instructional framework: “Students need opportunities to observe models of the way language is used by making explicit the invisible processes.
What is Demonstration?
100
The idea that children come to school with some knowledge about print literacy. This goes against the previous understanding that children learn print literacy from scratch during their time at school.
What is emergent literacy?
100
Books easily imitated by your students
What are Mentor Texts?
100
Expressive, poetic and transactional
What are the three voices of writing?
100
to inform the instructor
to inform the learners
to inform the parent
to inform the school administrators, school district provincial department of education
What are the four purposes of assessment?
200
The kind of planning that provides an overview of the year and helps establish a direction for educators and learners.
What is long range planning?
200
Recognizes the critical nature of home to literacy development, advocates a print-rich environment, and involves children being actively engaged in literacy practices including all 6 dimensions of the language arts.
What is early literacy?
200
When a text is written in this point of view it creates a sense of intimacy.
What is 2nd person?
200
narrative, expressive, informational or expository and poetry
What are the forms of writing?
200
these notes describe specific events and observations without evaluation or interpretation
What are Anecdotal records?
300
Talking and working together with everyone in the class can create a community of learners helping to build respect. This is an advantage of what kind of teaching?
What is whole class teaching?
300
If a student is struggling with the connection between letters and sounds, as a teacher you must teach this area of content.
What is Phonics. (p.173)? Other possible answers include phonological awareness or phonemic awareness (p.173)
300
-Captures student attention
-Accommodates for student differences/variety
-Provokes conversation between students
-Creates reading enjoyment
-Motivates/Engages students of all levels
What are the benefits to using mentor texts in the classroom?
300
Writing that serves to entertain the reader by linking a series of events together
What is narrative writing?
300
It is generally agreed that this assessment must begin with the learner.
What is self assessment?
400
Students who are learning in a language that is not their first language are known as
What is culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD)?
400
Teachers often use “big” books when conducting ____
What is shared reading?
400
Postcards, greeting cards, bookmarks, brochures, menus, ads, friendly notes, newspapers are good examples of what kind of writing
What is purposeful writing?
400
The first stage of collecting ideas, experiences and memories. It serves as brainstorming.
What is rehearsal?
400
This is a form of performance evaluation which has the aim of looking at a collection of a person's writings in many genres and voices.
What is a portfolio assessment?
500
Interest groups, research groups, next-step groups, collaborative pairs
What are ways to group learners for instruction other than by ability?
500
Holdaway believed that the foundation for Read-Alouds and Shared Reading had three phases that could be used to structure sustained literacy learning opportunities using literature. The three phases are . . .
What are Discovery, Exploration and Independent Experience?
500
What strategy is used to help readers clarify their views of reading and their use of strategies, while allowing educators to view how learners make meaning from text?
What are think alouds?
500
Writing that is aimed towards an audience that knows the writer, or, the writer themselves. It is generally not revised or crafted, and is exploratory.
What is Expressive Writing?
500
Pointing out the hard spots; Teaching spelling rules; Copying spelling list as a punishment.