Anatomy of a Lesson
Literacy First Acronyms
Vocabulary
Comprehension Skills
Comprehension Tools
100
A statement of what the students are to learn and how the teacher will know they learned it
What is an objective?
100
APK
What is Activate Prior Knowledge?
100
A tool that displays and enables student/teacher interaction with content vocabulary
What are Word Walls?
100
Identifying key elements and condensing important information into the reader's own words during and after reading to solidify meaning.
What is Summarizing?
100
Visual representations of knowledge, concepts or ideas
What is a Graphic Organizer?
200
Intentionally connecting students' previous experiences with the the content to be taught
What is Activate Prior Knowledge?
200
TIP
What is Teacher Input?
200
Common words used in every day language
What are Tier One Words?
200
Using pictures, titles, headings, and text—as well as personal experiences—to tell what might occur in the text before they begin to read.
What is Predicting?
200
A tool that helps students recognize whether or not information is present in the text and, if not, that it is necessary to read “between or beyond the lines” in order to answer the question?
What is Question answer Relationship (QAR)
300
Content information that is shared with the students by the instructor
What is Teacher Input?
300
SAP
What is Student Active Participation?
300
Higher level vocabulary that can be used across content areas
What are Tier Two Words?
300
Seeking information to clarify the author's intention and to extend the reader's thinking before, during and after reading.
What is Questioning?
300
A powerful tool for teachers because it allows the reader to look at the thinking process that goes on in the brain of a learner.
What is Think Aloud?
400
The largest portion of the class period that is dedicated to students actively manipulating the content
What is Student Active Participation?
400
ISS
What is Identify Student Success?
400
Vocabulary that is specific to one content area
What are Tier Three Words?
400
Images reflecting or representing ideas in the text, which may include the five senses to enhance understanding of the text.
What is visualizing?
400
Words that tell who. what, where, when, why and how as they relate to a specific text.
What are basic signal words?
500
An activity that lets the teacher know whether the students have successfully met the objective of the lesson
What is Identify Student Success?
500
ALT
What is Academic Learning Time (Student knows & understands objective, Student Manipulates Content, Students Succeed at 75 - 95% rate)?
500
Marzano's Six Steps for Vocabulary Instruction
What are 1. The teacher explains a new word — going beyond reciting its definition. 2. Students explain the new word in their own words. 3. Students create a nonlinguistic representation of the word. 4. Students engage in activities to deepen knowledge of the new word. 5. Students discuss the new word. 6. Students play games to review new vocabulary.?
500
Using personal knowledge to construct meaning beyond what is literally stated.
What is Inferring?
500
A learning model in which the responsibility for task completion shifts gradually over time from the teacher to the student. (I do, We do, Two do, You do)
What is Gradual Release of Responsibility?
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