Week 1
What grade do children typically make the switch from learning to read to reading to learn?
What is third grade?
Fast, effortless word recognition that comes with a great deal of practice.
What is automaticity?
The three roles in a successful reading experience.
What is the reader, selection and purpose?
The 4 developmental stages of reading words.
What are Prealphabetic, partial alphabetic, full alphabetic and consolidated alphabetic?
What is invented spelling?
View of reading that states that reading is a process in which the reader actively searches for meaning in what she reads.
What is the cognitive-constructivist vies of reading?
The difference between automaticity and fluency.
What is reading expression?
Three Genres that would motivate young students to read more.
What are periodicals, historical fiction, mystery, non-fiction, poetry, fiction....etc.?
Tool for writing in the classroom-put at eye level!
What is a word wall?
This method develops fluency more than any other.
What is re-reading?
The process where the reader comprehends sentences and then links ideas from one sentence to another.
What is the construction-integration process?
Theory that puts a great deal of emphasis on the reader, stressing that the meaning one gains from text is the result of a transaction between the reader and the text, and that readers will have a range of responses to literary works.
What is Reader Response Theory?
What are DRA, DRTA, SRE, and Guided Reading?
What are apps, bingo, go fish, etc...
Observations, Informal Reading Inventories, Standardized Tests and Running Records help teachers with this.
What is assessing students' reading proficiency?
The active awareness of one's comprehension while reading. "Thinking about thinking."
What is metacognition?
Vygotsky's them that extends the influence of the cognitive-constructivist view out from the reader ad the text into the larger realm.
What is Sociocultural Theory?
Pre-Reading Activity that creates a hook for student to read.
What is prediction?
First time you can take your teacher exam.
When is during student teaching?
Three re-reading methods that build reading fluency.
What are echo reading, choral reading and reader's theater?
This theory is concerned with knowledge, particularly the way knowledge is represented in our minds and how we use that knowledge.
Schema Theory
The insight that words are composed of specific, separate sounds.
What is phonemic awareness?
An instructional approach that involves a teacher working with a small group of students who demonstrate similar reading behaviors and can read similar levels of texts
What is guided reading?
Three strategies for fostering reading comprehension.
What are story maps, KWL, discussion webs, etc.
A system that uses a complex formula of word difficulty and sentence complexity to determine the reading level of texts.
What is Lexile?