Requires students to work in pairs and students take turns reading a passage.
What is partner reading?
100
Decoding words requires these strategies, which include left-to-right analysis of letter-sound relationships.
What are phonemic strategies?
100
Drawn from the author's imagination but is true to life and often focuses on universal human problems.
What is realistic fiction?
100
The stage of the writing process when a student tentatively plans his/her writing.
What is a draft?
100
Awareness of mental contents and processes; "thinking about thinking."
What is metacognition?
200
Students read individually and silently, typically selecting their own texts, sometimes with teacher guidance.
What is independent reading?
200
Students use these strategies when they read or write words by thinking about what they mean.
What are morphemic strategies?
200
Drawn from the author's imagination, but is true to life in some period of the past.
What is historical fiction?
200
This is teacher's purpose for having students find a quote from a book that best describes their favorite character and writing how that quote reflects the character.
What is supporting textual interpretations?
200
Understanding the nature of print, the function it serves, and the conventions governing its use.
What is print awareness?
300
Small group reading instruction for students who read the same text. The group is homogeneous: the students read at about the same level, demonstrate similar reading behaviors, and share similar instructional needs.
What is guided reading?
300
Having students clap and count the syllables as they say a word is an example of this type of skill.
What is phonological awareness?
300
Provide ideas, facts, and principles that are related to the physical, biological, or social world.
What is informational text?
300
The stage of the writing process when corrections in grammar, spelling, capitalization, and punctuation are made.
What is editing?
300
Childeren's beliefs about and experiences with reading and writing prior to formal instruction.
What is emergent literacy?
400
The students follow along while you read the text aloud, perhaps inviting them to join you or take over from time to time.
What is shared reading?
400
During the morning message, a kindergarten teacher produces the /t/ sound and asks the students, "Who can show me the letter that makes that sound?" A student then uses the pointer to identify the letter that corresponds with the sound.
What is alphabetic principle?
400
A special division of fantasy that involves or is based on scientific principles.
What is science fiction?
400
The stage of writing when students clarify, add details, alter the organization, and make other improvements to their writing.
What is revising?
400
Understanding of information that isn't explicitly given, but rather implied in a written passage.
What is inferential comprehension?
500
You read aloud, pausing at significant points, asking your students for comments, and inviting brief discussion.
What is an interactive read-aloud?
500
Changing the word "rat" to "cat" involves this skill.
What is substitution?
500
A social studies teacher is beginning a unit on the colonization of North America. As an introduction to the unit, the students will read a selection of journal entries from a crew member who accompanied Christopher Columbus on his first voyage to the New World.
What is a narrative?
500
This is one of the least effective ways to teach vocabulary.
What is copying definitions?
500
The ability to read quickly, accurately, smoothly, and with expression.