When an ELL switches words in their home language with English words. (Ex: los chickens)
What is code switching?
100
The store of words that a child knows.
What is vocabulary?
100
Type of questions that solicit a yes/no answer.
What are close-ended questions?
100
Books that have more illustrations than text.
What are picture books?
100
A teachers support of students' accomplishments of tasks that they could not complete independently.
What is scaffolding?
200
The first stage of second language acquisition.
What is the preproductive stage?
200
Basic vocabulary words.
What are Tier 1 words?
200
Type of questions where the answer can be found directly from the text.
What is literal questions?
200
Kinds of books characterized by adult subjects and strong rhythm.
What are poetry and verse?
200
The demonstration of thinking about or using literacy knowledge in skills.
What is modeling?
300
Time during second language acquisition which features limited language output, but typically is highly productive for ELLs’ receptive language growth.
What is the silent period?
300
High frequency/ multiple meaning words.
What are Tier 2 words?
300
Type of question in which the answer interpreted based on the text.
What is inferential questions?
300
Stories characterized by the "Once upon a time...They lived happily ever after" model.
What are fairy tales?
300
These are designed to elicit children's responses during an instructional conversation.
What is guiding questions?
400
Words with similar pronunciation, meaning, and spelling between different languages. (Ex: Hamburger and Hamburguesa)
What are cognates?
400
Low frequency/ context-specific language.
What are Tier 3 words?
400
Type of question where the teacher is seeking additional information from the child in order to understand what the child is saying.
What are clarifying questions?
400
A literary genre in which the reader must suspend their disbelief in order to enjoy the story. Types include enchanted journey, animated object, and unlikely situation.
What is fantasy?
400
Shifting control from the more direct teacher-centered instruction to more indirect child-centered instruction over a period of time.
What is gradual release of responsibility?
500
A method of early instruction for ELLs that involves using objects or pictorial representations of objects in connection with using the language.
What is the iconic model?
500
The process of matching speech sounds onto printed symbols.
What is fast mapping?
500
Type of questions where the answer relates the story back to the childs personal life.
What is connection questions?
500
A literary genre that includes books about events that actually occurred and people that actually lived.
What is nonfiction?
500
A teachers elaboration on a child's simpler statement.