Word Work
Shared & Guided Reading
Comprehension
Writing
OTHER
100
In this activity the students practice using context and phonics to decode an unknown word.
What is Guess the Covered Word?
100
Big books and charts are used in this part of the literacy program.
What is shared reading?
100
A child is attempting to read at this level if s/he understands less than 75%.
What is frustration level?
100
In this teaching approach, the teacher shares the pen with emergent writers.
What is interactive writing?
100
90-94% of the words in the text can be recognized
What is a child's instructional reading level?
200
This is the lowest level of the phonological awareness continuum.
What is rhyming
200
Shared Reading
In which part of the literacy program do the children read a familiar text in unison with the teacher?
200
This is the highest level at which a student can understand a text that is read aloud to him or her.
What is the listening level?
200
Planning, drafting, revising, editing, publishing/sharing.
What is writing process?
200
When helping children perform this reading comprehension strategy, the teacher asks students to think about himself/herself, other books, and the world around him/her.
What is making connections?
300
Students use a flyswatter to quickly and accurately locate high frequency/sight words.
What is Swat-a-word?
300
Instructional level text
What level of text should be used for Guided Reading instruction?
300
This graphic organizer works best when students are comparing and contrasting two literary elements.
What is a Venn diagram?
300
The teacher thinks aloud to plan, draft, revise and/or edit a piece of writing.
What is modeled writing?
300
When readers look for clues in the text and think about their own background knowledge in order to better understand something that is not directly stated by the author.
What is inferring?
400
This activity involves students in manipulation of letters to form words, followed by transferring the phonic element/chunk to the reading and spelling of new words.
What is Making Words
400
These practices are appropriate for grades K-3.
What are Shared Reading and Guided Reading?
400
In this instructional approach, students are divided into groups to read and discuss a book they have chosen from among several books pre-selected by the teacher.
What are Literature Circles?
400
Changing one's writing to make it better by adding descriptive words, clearer sentences, better organization of sentences and paragraphs, etc.
What is revising?
400
Characters, setting, problem, goal, events, conclusion.
What are literary elements?
500
This part of the literacy program builds students' decoding skills by helping them make connections between spelling patterns and practice fluent reading of high-frequency words.
What is Word Work?
500
This is affected by sentence length, word complexity, sentence structure, and background knowledge.
What is the readability level of a text?
500
This part of the literacy program helps students build listening comprehension skills that serve as a foundation for later reading comprehension.
What are read aloud experiences?
500
Test-study-test and self-correction of pretests.
What spelling instructional practices are best supported by research?
500
Students arrange a group of words in groups that make sense to them.
What is an open word sort?
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