Theories
Reading
Writing
Planning
Assessment
100
Using students' prior experiences in the classroom to make deeper connections.
What is funds of knowledge? 
100
Allowing change in guided reading groups throughout the year
What is flexible grouping?
100
Letting children choose writing topics that interest them.
What are authentic writing tasks?
100
Clearly written objectives will be this
What is specific?
100
These types of assessments have real-world applications
What are authentic assessments?
200
The acquisition of knowledge by individuals as a process of social participation. Creating a shared repertoire of ideas, commitments and memories.
What is a community of learners?
200
Whole-class reading with specific literacy objective
What are read alouds?
200
When a teacher uses concrete examples to scaffold a specific writing strategy
What is modeling?
200
In order to determine effectiveness, objectives will be this
What is measurable?
200
Giving students this helps them to demonstrate their understanding in meaningful ways
What is voice/choice
300
Using questions such as "How do I write? How and what do I read? What kinds of things do I write/read? How do my students use literacy in their communities?"
What are new literacy strategies?
300
Quite independent reading
What is Silent Sustained Reading (SSR)?
300
Draft, peer conference, revise, edit, teacher conference, publish
What is the writing process?
300
The state-regulated goals that guide objectives
Standards
300
Allowing students to reflect and assess their own learning
What is self-assessment?
400

This theory states that literacy education should raise the critical consciousness of learners, dialogue is necessary for meaningful learning, and teaching should recognize students’ prior knowledge


McKeon 4


prior knowledge and be more than information transfer

What is critical literacies?
400
Allowing students to choose where they sit during reading
What is flexible seating?
400
A meeting with a student that focuses on developing skills specific to each
What is a writers conference?
400
Differentiation can be based on _____, _____, and _____.
Readiness, Interest, Learning Style
400
Ongoing measurements of a students' reading fluency and comprehension
What are reading benchmark assessments?
500
When discussing the combination of language with other social practices (behavior, values, ways of thinking, clothes, food, custom, perspectives) within a specific group, Gee refers to that as _____.
What is discourse?
500
Much of todays early literacy focuses on this type of awareness
What is phonemic?
500
A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter
What is genre
500
Three parts of a lesson that can be differentiated
What are content, process, and product?
500
Bullshit that the state mandates our students take that eats up valuable class time and does not give an accurate portrayal of student achievement
What is standardized testing?
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