Awesome Assessments
Oh...Those 90 Minutes!
Small Groups that Sizzle
HARCOURT Happenings
Literacy Potpourri
100
The reading assessment given to students in grades K-3 several times a year
What is PALS?
100
The amount of minutes devoted to whole group instruction during the reading block
What is 30 minutes?
100
The number of days of the week teachers meet with their intensive student reading group
What are five days?
100
the name of the HARCOURT books that are used during small group reading instruction
What are the leveled reading books?
100
the approach that teachers are encouraged to use the first month of school that establishes routines and procedures during small group reading time
What is the 21 day plan?
200
The name of the progress monitoring tests that can be given to students that show weaknesses on PALS subtests
What are PALS Quick Checks?
200
The name of Henrico's CORE reading program
What is HARCOURT?
200
The ongoing practice of grouping students for small group instruction based on assessment and achievement of skills
What is flexible grouping?
200
words from anthology story and leveled reader that teachers explicity teach pronunciation and meaning of each day in whole group
What are the vocabulary words?
200
the ability to read text accurately and quickly with expression and proper phrasing
What is reading fluency?
300
Assessments that identify students' specific instructional needs
What are diagnostic assessments?
300
Type of chart where teacher and students record students’ thinking about a text, lesson, or strategy.
What are anchor charts?
300
Activities in literacy that students work on independently or with each other during small group reading time
What are literacy work station?
300
the visual tool that teachers use to model comprehension strategies with students
What are graphic organizers?
300
practice that teachers need to do everyday for at least 15 minutes with a good literature and a great way to incorporate content studies
What is a read aloud?
400
Assessments that identify children in need of additional support or children that need enrichment or extensions
What are screening assessments?
400
Strategy used by teacher to model the reading process and let students see and hear how skilled readers construct meaning from a text.
What is a think aloud?
400
The ineffective practice of calling on students to read orally one after the other
What is round robin reading?
400
the only place where teachers should use the HARCOURT audiotapes
What are listening work stations?
400
Name at least 2 things that would be in a literacy rich classroom.
What are student work samples, word walls, vocabulary word walls, alphabet, anchor charts, etc.
500
The informal reading assessments used by teachers to gather data from a student's oral reading of a passage
What are running records?
500
Name three of the five essential components of the Reading Program
What is phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension?
500
The tiered approach that addresses student's needs using interventions of increasing intensity
What is Response to Intervention?
500
Name three comprehension strategies that teachers MUST model and teach to readers.
What is summarizing, predicting, asking questions, inferring, visualizing,etc.
500
the letters in PALS stands for
What is Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening?
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