Comprehension Strategies
Instructional Approaches
Writing Process
Writing Forms
Writing Traits
100
Drawing meaning from what the author states and implies in the text.
What is inferring?
100
A demonstration by the teacher of how to perform a task or use a strategy. It may include a think aloud.
What is modelling?
100
1.1 identify the topic, purpose, and audience for a variety of writing forms 1.2 generate ideas about a potential topic using a variety of strategies and resources. 1.3 research or gather information to support ideas for writing using a variety of strategies and oral, print, and electronic sources.
What is the pre-writing stage?
100
To explain how something came to be and/or why it is a certain way.
What is and explanation?
100
The rhythm and flow of the language.
What is sentence fluency?
200
text-to-text, text-to-world, text-to-self
What is making connections?
200
The teacher presents a text to the whole class or a small group for all to see. The teacher does much of the reading but asks students to read certain parts individually or chime in at designated spots, and increases students’ participation as their skill levels improve. The teacher uses the text to demonstrate one or more teaching points.
What is shared reading?
200
2.7 make changes to improve the content, clarity, and interest of their written work, using several types of strategies
What is revision?
200
To entertain, to tell a story, to engage, to provide an escape into a different world or time.
What is a narrative?
200
The main message.
What is ideas?
300
Effective readers use the words, structures, and meanings in a text to create pictures in their minds.
What is visualizing?
300
Students in a small group read an instructional level book selected by the teacher. The teacher coaches and prompts the students. The small-group structure gives the teacher opportunities to meet individual needs.
What is guided reading?
300
3.1 Spelling familiar words 3.2 Spelling unfamiliar words 3.3 Vocabulary 3.4 Punctuation 3.5 Grammar 3.6 Proofreading
What is editing?
300
To convince someone to do, think, or believe something.
What is persuasive or expository writing?
300
The personal tone and flavor of the author's message.
What is voice?
400
Students are asked to apply a number of thinking processes in order to combine meanings, delete less important details, and condense the key messages to arrive at the essence of meaning.
What is summarizing?
400
Students select their own books and practise skills and strategies. They are encouraged to select books of personal interest at a comfortable level. The teacher gives students opportunities to share their responses to the texts with their classmates, and may provide focused mini-lessons to assist students in selecting books (or knowing when to abandon a book), extending their understanding, or managing their reading.
What is independent or self selected reading?
400
2.8 initial attempt to produce pieces of writing to meet identified criteria based on the expectations related to content, organization, style, and use of conventions
What is drafting?
400
To give instruction to tell the reader how to do something.
What is procedural writing?
400
The internal structure of the piece.
What is organization?
500
Drawing conclusions about the purpose and validity of the ideas and information in texts of all types.
What is evaluating?
500
A term originally developed by Vygotsky it is the zone between a child's actual developmental level and the level of potential development which can be developed under adult guidance, or in collaboration with more capable peers.
What is the zone of proximal development?
500
3.7 use some appropriate elements of effective presentation in the finished product, including print, script, different fonts, graphics, and layout. 3.8 produce pieces of published work to meet identified criteria based on the expectations related to content, organization, style, use of conventions, and use of presentation strategies
What is publishing?
500
To provide a precise, organized, factual record on a specific topic.
What is a report?
500
The vocabulary a writer chooses to convey meaning.
What is word choice?
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