Literacy Matters
Building Prior Knowledge
Writing Across the Curriculum
Culturally Responsive Teaching
Igniting Student Learning
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What to Teach
What is content
100
Important considerations: What the writer assumes What the reader knowes
What is judging whether prior knowledge is adequate
100
Connects writing to reading in a creative way by having students "get inside the skin" of a character or a subject under study
What are POVGs (Point of View Guides)
100
the shared beliefs, values, and rule-goverened patterns of behavior that define a group and are required for group membership.
What is culture (as defined by Perogoy and Boyle, 2008)?
100
This memory can hold and manipulate information for use in the immediate future.
What is working memory
200
Active, Purposeful, Evaluative, Thoughtful, Strategic, Persistent, and Productive
What are Good Readers
200
What are ways allow the teacher to plan and modify how background is to be built for a reading assignment. They also allow the teacher to guage the the extent of student comprehension and learning.
KWL, KWLS, DRTA
200
Short and informal tasks that support learning
What are WTL activities
200
The SIOP model for sheltered instruction
What is the sheltered instruction observation protocol?
200
dendrite formation and dendrite and neuron destruction (pruning) allows the brain to reshape and reorganize the networks of dendrite-neuron connections in response to increased or decreased use of these pathways
What is plasticity?
300
How to Teach
What is process
300
A specific strategy to help students understand key words, impove their vocabulary comprehension, and allows for a visual component.
What is the Verbal and Visual Word Association
300
When students write on an index card to reflect on and synthesize information. For example, answere the questions: What relationshiops to other organisms does an adult river turtle have in this river community? AND How do these relationships differ from those of a young turtle?
What is an example of a Microtheme?
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1. High Expectations 2. Positive relationships with families and communities 3. Cultural Sensitivity 4. Active teaching methods 5. Teachers as facilitator 6. Students control portions of the lesson 7. Instruction around groups and pairs to create low anxiety
What are: 7 Characteristics of Culturally Responsive Teaching
300
1. Mulitple forms of review 2. Visual imagery 3. Personal relevance 4. Produce a product or make a model 5. Role-lay or pantomime
What are activities that will help enhance memory and learning (to poentiate the implantation of new information into memory and improve retrieval later)?
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-The learner's prior knowledge -The learner's purpose -The vocabulary and conceptual difficulty of the text material -Assumptions the text writers make -Teacher's beliefs and attitue toward the use of texts in learning situations
What are factors that influence reading to learn in a given discipline?
400
Helpful for studnt to know in advance how material is organized. This is one way to accomplish this.
What is organizational walk-throughs
400
Give a complete answer Use complete sentence Repeat key words from the question Are specific Don't leave the reader guessing
What are great short answers
400
Labeling items in your classroom in both English and students' first language, posting visuals, and creating word walls.
What is using the environment as a "teacher"
400
Novelty and Excitement (such as unexpected classroom events, dressing in costumes, playing music, showing dynamic videos, putting comic strips or optical illusions on the document camera).
What are ways to capture and hold students' attention?
500
Blogging, Wiki's, Nings, iPads, and webquests
What are examples of "new literacies"
500
Physical objects that can occassionally provide a visual referent that will enhance comprehension.
What are props (such as: 3-D model of DNA molecule, Native American artifact, box of black and white marbles used to teach probability)
500
Discovery Drafting Revising
What are the stages in the writing process
500
1. ELLs communicate for Social and Instructional purposes within the school setting. 2. ELLs communicate information, ideas, and concepts necessary for academic success in the content area of Language Arts. 3. ELLs communicate information, ideas, and concepts necessary for academic success in the content area of Mathematics. 4. ELLs communicate information, ideas, and concepts necessary for academic success in the content area of Science. 5. ELLs communicate information, ideas, and concepts necessary for academic success in the content area of Social Studies.
What are Colorado's English Language Proficiency Standards (from the World-Class Instruction Design and Assessment (WIDA))
500
A Strategy to capitvate students' attenion is utized in this example? "The book Animal Farm invovles animals as the main characters. Whydo you think the author choose to write teh story using animals as characters instead of using people?
What is "Prime the Pump"
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