Acronyms
Reading
Writing
Instruction
Assessment
100
ESOL
What is English for Speakers of Other Languages?
100
When a teacher reads a sentence and the student repeats the sentence.
What is Echo Reading?
100
Used as a prewriting visual to prepare to write a compare/contrast essay.
What is a Venn Diagram?
100
All students take responsibiltiy for one another's learning; a text or activity is broken up into parts, each student is responsible for one part to present to the group.
What is a Jigsaw Procedure?
100
Shorthand transcription of a child's oral reading of a text, taken "on the spot", while the child is reading.
What is a Running Record?
200
ESEA
What is the Elementary and Secondary Education Act?
200
Graphophonics (sound/symbol correspondences), syntax (word order), and semantics (meaning).
What are the linguistic systems involved in reading?
200
Prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing.
What are the Writing Process Phases?
200
Groups of 3-6 students that discuss the work of published authors.
What are Literature Response Groups?
200
Instructors watch English learners as they approach various reading, writing, and oral language tasks and accomplish authentic reading activities throughout the day. Includes teacher-made tests, miscue analysis of oral reading, checklists, anecdotal observations, and student work samples.
What is Informal Assessment?
300
RTI
What is Response To Intervention? (A schoolwide system for identifying and teaching students who need instructional assistance in reading, math, and other subjects, p. 439)
300
When the central purpose of reading is to carry away information.
What is an efferent stance toward a text?
300
Lead, focus, voice, show not tell, ending.
What are Elements of Good Writing? (p. 266)
300
Students provide text, through dictation, that serves as the basis for reading instruction.
What is Language-Experience Approach?
300
A student-prepared assessment that includes specially selected examples of their work over a period of time.
What is a Portfolio Assessment?
400
IRI
What are Informal Reading Inventories?
400
The ability to monitor one's own reading processes and the ability to take strategic steps to remedy the situation when one's reading does not make sense.
What is metacognition?
400
Temporary frameworks to help students construct or comprehend a written message. Examples include the writing process, dialogue journals, buddy journals, and clustering.
What are Literacy Scaffolds? (p. 275)
400
Provides a scaffold by modeling how experienced readers make predictions as they read.
What is Directed Listening-Thinking Activity (DL-TA)?
400
An appropriate assessment for intermediate readers. Student reads materials while teacher is listening or tape recording; words are coded by teacher and comprehension questions are asked or student recalls information.
What is Miscue Analysis?
500
SDAIE
What is Specially Designed Academic Instruction in English?
500
Reading level when a student's word recognition is about 95% accurate and comprehension is about 70% in an IRI or other assessment method using leveled materials.
What is Instructional Reading Level?
500
The setting, characters, conflict (problem), and denouement (solution).
What are Story Elements? (p. 380-381)
500
A procedure to help students learn to develop their own questioning while reading to enable them to be better and more accurate comprehenders. Usually used with students who can read short text. Good for small-group instruction, but may be used with the whole class.
What is the ReQuest procedure? (p. 466)
500
30-item list of observable teacher behaviors that comprise effective planning, delivery, and assessment of sheltered instruction/SDAIE.
What is Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) model?
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