Multicultural
Literacies
Elementary
Education
Random
100

These words appear frequently in beginning reader texts and may or may not follow phonics rules. 

What are sight words and/or high frequency words?

100

Pitting the Science of Reading against balanced literacy is an example of this

What is a "false debate"?

100

This approach describes how words are spelled and what they mean.

What is word study?

100

This describes the difference between "equity" and "equality".

What is everyone gets the same things/treatment for equality but everyone gets what they need for equity (they may or may not be the same)

100

He is the illustrator for "The Last Stop on Market Street"

Who is Christian Robinson?

200

This type of assessment is often the norm in middle school but NOT a best practice. Instead, students should be doing "_____ ______, ______ ________" activities. 

What is high stakes? And what is low stakes, high frequency? 

200

These two factors (as part of an equation) contribute to engagement

What is "confidence" and "relevance"

200

This factor differs from engagement because it relates more to the goals, values, and beliefs one brings to bear when reading

What is motivation?

200

This term means the study of meaningful word parts

What is morphology 

200

This book was banned for (supposedly) perpetuating an out-dated stereotype of a character and because the author is not a member of the group featured in the book. 

What is "The Snowy Day"?

300

This Russian psychologist developed this theory which explains how people learn through language and social interactions. (name the person and theory)

Who is Lev Vygotsky and what is sociocultural theory?

300

This type of classroom (what is the word) encourages students to speak and listen and work on both sets of skills simultaneously. 

What is a polyvocal classroom?

300

These three elements provide a comprehensive framework for structuring ELA time in grades 4 - 8. 

What is whole group instruction, small group collaborative work, and focused individual reading and writing time

300

When teachers do this, they decrease control and increase activity on the part of the student

What is "gradual release of responsibility"?

300

This type of teaching offers students choice, a focus on process and product, and a chance to build knowledge about the world.

What is project based learning?

400

This is the difference between phonemic awareness and phonics - give a definition for both. 

What is: phonemic awareness is the ability to blend, segment and delete sounds whereas phonics is letter-sound knowledge and understanding the alphabetic principle?

400

These three factors impact fluency

What are prosody, automaticity, and rate?

400

This type of pedagogy for this "activity" leads students instead of simply evaluating them. 

What is "responsive teaching" with writing?

400

These two types of assessments (___________, ________) are used for these two different purposes.  

What is formative: guide instructional decisions; summative: for grades and reporting.

400

He developed this theory to explain why some groups do worse on assessments despite having the same knowledge and ability as others. 

Who is Claude Steele and what is stereotype threat?

500

To make writers better, teaching should include these four practices. 

What are volume, choice, modeling, and feedback?

500

Digital literacies are best taught through this instructional cycle of 3 factors

What is: modeling, practicing, and then reflecting?

500

These four processes impact a reader's comprehension as they read.

What are: strategic, text specific, personalized, and situated?

500

These are the three tiers of vocabulary

What are "everyday words", "general academic or across content area" and "content area or content specific"?

500

These are three ways to critically read a text and the person/thing that is centered.

What is "reading behind the text (author centered)", "reading within the text (text centered)", and "reading in front of the text (reader centered)"?

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