Emergent Readers, Writers and Speakers
Name one principle of alphabetic knowledge.
Ability to name letters.
Knowledge of letter sounds.
Write letters.
Voluntary reading can produce a significant increase in reading achievement if students read a minimum of __________ on their own.
10 minutes
You are teaching a student a new word. Which strategy would be most helpful?
A learning a synonym
B hearing the word pronounced
C hearing the word explained in context
D seeing the word on a flash card
C hearing the word explained in context
I want my students to be able to self-select their reading material, while I conduct state of the class conferences, individual and small-group conferences, and allot time for sharing. Which literacy program should I use?
Individualized Reading/ Reading Workshop
"Books should serve as _______, mirrors, and sliding glass doors." -Dr. Sims Bishop
windows
One of the main goals of the instructional practice Read Aloud is to...?
Foster a love for reading.
By age 3, mostnchildren's spoken vocabulary includes about how many words?
1000
Which literacy program requires teachers to monitor work at centers while also managing small-group instruction?
Guided Reading
Which theorist gave us the Zone of Proximal Development?
Vygotsky
What is the best way and most natural way to reinforce high-frequency words?
Reading them in context.
What is prosody?
Reading with expression.
Morphemic analysis is a powerful word-attack skill that is primarily concerned with___.
Meaning.
Which literacy program is based on children’s experience that is shaped into their reading material?
Language Experience Approach
_____ theory describes how familiar situations are understood; situation model theory describes how new situations are comprehended.
Schema
A student is trying to pronounce the c in the words cat and cent Using the variability strategy, the student would...?
A try one pronunciation, and if that didn’t work out, try another.
A student pronounces pin and pen identically. This showcases a variation in ______?
Dialect
What does the text mean when it says that most words that skilled readers meet in print are processed as “sight words”?
Words that are recognized immediately
Which elaboration strategy is especially designed for students having difficulty with inferences?
QAR-Question Answer Relationship
Behaviorism focused on external factors such as praise and rewards. While ______ instead is grounded in mental processes that can be studied.
Cognitivism
_____ to children is the most important thing parents can do to support their children’s verbal intelligence.
Talking
Name a characteristic of children’s invented spelling?
The spelling seems to follow a few basic principles.
In print, which high-frequency word appears the most?
the
You are comparing two or three items with similar traits. Which graphic organizer would work best for this?
Venn diagram.
First this was constructivism. Then social constructivism. Who is responsible for theorizing social constructivism?
Vygotsky