Language Arts Introduction
Students learn from their teachers' modeling, and have time to practice the skill before they are assessed.
What is the Gradual Release of Responsibility Model of Instruction?
A category of writing that has defining characteristics such as the type of characters, setting, action, and an overall form or structure.
What is a genre?
A set of national proficiency standards for English learners that include four domains of listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
What are WIDA standards for ELLs?
What are the three stages of early reading development?
What are text features?
An exploration of the senses that paints vivid images with selective vocabulary and structure.
What is poetry?
Identifying and reflecting on one's own thinking and making decisions about it.
What is metacognition?
The reader, the text, and the context
What are the transactional components of reading?
Pacing and wait time, Reading and writing buddies, Partner Reading, Think-Pair-Share.
What are strategies to use to differentiate instruction?
Student is able to track words and sentences, spells using invented spelling, and is able to identify a few key details of a text.
Who is a beginning reader?
Compare and Contrast, Cause and Effect, Problem and Solution, Sequence, Description
What are text structures?
Alliteration, personification, metaphors, similes, onomatopoeia, hyperboles, rhymes, imagery
What are literary devices?
Declarative, procedural, and conditional
What are the three types of knowledge involved in metacognition?
Literacy experiences selected by the reader based upon their reading interests.
What is Krashen's theory of free voluntary reading?
Conversational language skills in second language acquisition.
What is BICS (Basic Interpersonal Communicative Skills) language development?
A shared reading/writing activity where the teacher and students develop a written piece that supports reading words in context, word recognition, vocabulary, and fluency development.
What is the language experience approach?
What are integrated units of study?
The last two lines in a poem whose last two words rhyme?
What is a couplet?
What is incidental teaching?
The process that good readers do to make meaning of a text as they read.
What is a think aloud?
Teachers implement lessons based upon eight essential elements that support ELLs language instruction.
What is the SIOP (Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol) instructional model?
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What is the onset and rime?
Group discussions, book talks, think alouds, Gallery Walk
What are ways to develop visual literacy?
Students must shift from writing prose to poetry. Students learn how to use words and phrases in lines in poems rather than sentences.
What are challenges students face when writing poetry?
Pragmatics, phonological awareness, morphology, syntax, semantics, and vocabulary
What are the components of oral language?
Literary elements of characterization, setting, plot, style, and theme that are skillfully woven together by an author.
What is literary merit?
Hand gestures, facial expressions, posture, body language, eye movements.
What are nonverbal ways to communicate wants and needs?
Activating prior knowledge, making predictions, monitoring understanding, supporting predictions, drawing conclusions, summarizing and synthesizing information, making connections, and applying knowledge and understanding.
What is reading comprehension?
Text to self, text to text, text to world
What are ways readers can connect with a text?
A diamond shape poem.
What is a diamante?