Vocabulary
Comprehension
Assessments
Reading/Writing Connection
Instructional Materials
100
A subtle difference between words to describe variations in meaning.
What is shades of meaning
100
Questions that can be explicitly stated in the text.
What are literal questions?
100
Assessment used to check student's understanding of a specific skill.
What is a criterion referenced assessment?
100
A complementary process of meaning construction involving the use of similar cognitive strategies
What is the reading and writing connection?
100
The general plan for the introduction of skills in a reading program.
What is scope and sequence?
200
The level of understanding we have of words
What is breadth
200
The type of comprehension question for the following sentence: If the woman was going to grade papers, should she be using a red pen?
What is an evaluative question?
200
How well a test measures what it is designed to measure.
What is validity?
200
An open ended script in which students use their imagination and creative writing in a playful manner.
What are plot scaffolds?
200
The most popular materials used for reading instruction in the country.
What is a basal reading program?
300
Putting words into categories based upon specific criteria to understand word meanings.
What are word sorts?
300
Strategy to help students know what information sources are available for seeking answers to different types of text questions.
What is a QAR (Question-Answer Relationship)?
300
Students are doing reading and writing tasks that look like real-life tasks.
What is authentic assessment?
300
Used to identify key points in a text or share thoughts about a passage.
What is a response journal?
300
Big books, anthologies, retelling cards, decodable readers, vocabulary cards, etc.
What are components of a basal reader?
400
Levels of abstraction from the most concrete to abstract ranging from verbal symbols to direct, purposeful experiences.
What is Dale's Cone of Experience?
400
Mrs. Jones has students use a strategy to help them predict, verify, judge, and extend their thinking about the text material.
What is a directed reading-thinking activity (DR-TA)?
400
An assessment system for determining students' development of oral reading fluency and word identification skills and strategies.
What is a running record?
400
Songwriting, creating cartoon strips, and writing a school or class newspaper.
What are occasions for writing and reading?
400
Often used for small group instruction, remediation, or to target specific gaps in content instruction.
What are supplemental materials?
500
A strategy for students to use to understand vocabulary definitions and concepts through a visual model.
What is a frayer model?
500
Students make these types of connections with the text to understand the content and relevancy.
What is text to self, text to text, and text to world connections?
500
Using artifacts such as writing samples, projects, self reflections, list of books read, etc.
What are elements of a portfolio?
500
Drafting, editing, revising, and publishing.
What is the writing process?
500
To adapt teaching for all learners (gifted students, visual learners, English language learners, struggling readers, etc.)
What is differentiated instruction?
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