Small -Group Reading Instruction
CCSS/RTI Article
Guided Reading Article
G. R. Article continued
Do you feel lucky?
100
This student need is key to the reading strategies taught in the small-group reading model.
What is his/her developmental need? (As opposed to the chronological age or grade level.)
100
Instruction and assessment in the regular classroom are included in this tier of RTI.
What is Tier I of instruction/intervention?
100
An instructional context for supporting each reader's development of effective strategies for processing novel texts at increasingly challenging levels of difficulty.
What is guided reading?
100
Solving words, monitoring and correcting, searching for and using information, summarizing information in a way that the reader can remember it, adjusting reading for different purposes and genres & sustaining fluency
What is thinking within the text?
100
The foundation for effective teaching.
What is effective assessment?
200
This is the third stage of the small-group differentiated reading model.
What is "fledgling reader"?
200
The name of the first standards to be developed. Hint: It's not CCSS.
What is CCR - College and Career Readiness standards?
200
The country in which guided reading began.
What is New Zealand?
200
Thinking Beyond the Text
What is inferring, synthesizing, making connections, and predicting?
200
This reflects not a score, but a set of behaviors and understandings that you, the teacher, can observe for evidence of, teach for, and reinforce at every level.
What is a reading level?
300
This provides a systematic framework for teaching beginning and struggling readers.
What is the small-group differentiated reading model?
300
Reading, writing, speaking/listening, and language
What are the components of the CCSS-ELA integrated view of literacy and language?
300
This type of instruction is needed in order to reach all children in the classroom.
What is differentiated instruction?
300
Analysis and critique
What is thinking about the text?
300
The ten characteristics related to text difficulty, according to Fountas & Pinnell.
What are genres/forms, text structure, content, themes and ideas, language and literary features, sentence complexity, vocabulary, words, illustrations, and book and print features?
400
At this stage of beginning reading in the small-group differentiated reading model, the student recognizes over 100 sight words.
What is the Transitional Reader stage?
400
This aspect of reading instruction is highlighted in the language strand of CCSS-ELA in grades K-5.
What is vocabulary?
400
The name of the text level gradient that has become the teacher's tool for selecting different texts for different groups of children.
What is A to Z?
400
Razinski's and Hamman's research on this has found that while it increased, comprehension has not increased.
What is fluency?
400
This text characteristic is measured by mechanical readability formulas.
What is sentence complexity?
500
This aspect of the small-group differentiated reading model includes alphabet knowledge, beginning consonant sounds, word families, common and uncommon vowel patterns, and prefixes & suffixes.
What is word study?
500
SBAC
What is the acronym for SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium, who, in conjunction with PARCC are working toward new state assessments for CCSS.
500
The three elements of proficient reading.
What are decoding, comprehension, and fluency?
500
The most powerful system the young child brings to initial experiences with the reading process.
What is oral language?
500
The three roles of the teacher in facilitative talk.
What are teach, prompt, and reinforce?
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