Students do this when they use their fingers to separate the sounds to "sound out" the words.
What is tapping?
100
When students give a short answer, they need to support their answer with this?
What is evidence from the text?
100
In this grade, students build their understanding of the place value system by working with decimals up to the hundredths place.
What is fifth grade?
100
This means reading to uncover layers of meaning that lead to deeper comprehension.
What is close reading?
100
This set of standards was designed to help better prepare students for college and the work force across the nation.
What is Common Core?
200
The is the vowel that says it's name.
What is a long vowel?
200
If a student does not understand a vocabulary word while reading, he should use these to help him understand the meaning.
What are context clues?
200
In this grade, students will add, subtract, and multiply fractions, including fractions with unlike denominators.
What is fifth grade?
200
These types of questions require both literal and inferential thinking, but they fall short in sevearl ways.
What are text dependent questions?
Questions that are related to craft and structure and integration of knowledge of ideas take students' thinking to a higer level.
200
Students will be asked to read text and refer back to the text to find the answers. One of the ways to help students read more challenging texts is to build a stronger what?
What is vocabulary?
300
This is the vowel that "sings." It does not say it's name.
What is a short vowel?
300
This is what it is called when the reader understands the reason why the author wrote the text.
What is author's purpose?
300
In this grade, students will learn the concept of rates and ratios and use these tools to solve word problems.
What is sixth grade?
300
This is the new framework/curriculum that has inspired teachers everywhere to teach students to think deeper.
What is the Common Core?
300
In fifth and sixth grade, students will be asked to read a wide range of literature including these three genres.
What are stories, plays and poems?
400
This is the abbreviation for Consonant Vowel Consonant words.
What is CVC?
400
This is a fancy word for background knowledge.
What is schema?
400
In this grade, students will work on quickly and accurately dividing multi-digit whole numbers and adding, subtracting, multilying, and dividing multi-digit decimals.
What is sixth grade?
400
In close reading, we ask the students higher level thinking questions, but the goal is to teach the students to ask _________ the questions as they read independently.
What is "themselves?"
400
Writing tasks in fifth and sixth grade may include these four types of writing.
What are stories, essays, reports, and persuasive papers?
500
This is the type of vowel found in a CVC word.
What is a short vowel?
500
This is the term for the skill needed when the answer isn't stated directly in the text.
What is to infer?
500
When teachers concentrate on a more focused set of major math concepts, allow more time for student mastery, and use rich and challenging materials and content to engage students in solving rea-world problems, this inspires students to have a greater insterest in __________?
What is mathematics?
500
The goal is for studnets to take what they learn from the study of one text and apply it to this?
What is the next text they read?
500
Common Core is designed to raise the rigor of teaching and learning. Rigor means thinking ___________.