Jeane Chall
Primary Literacy
Middle Years Literacy
High School Literacy
Potpourri
100

The learner becomes aware of the relationship between sounds and letters and begins applying the knowledge to text.

What is Stage 1: Initial Reading or Decoding Stage

100

According to chapter 7, these are the best predictors of literacy achievement.

What are alphabet knowledge, phonological awareness, and oral language

100

Adolescent years are described as strum and drang.

What is storm and stress?

100

This is a major factor in the need for adjustment in instructional practices in high school classrooms.

What is the increased population in ELLs?

100

The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

What is The Matthew Effect?

200

The student now has the ability to select reading material and is building a personal view or model of the world and truth.

What is Stage 5: Construction and Reconstruction - A World View

200

This is essential for successful comprehension.

What is vocabulary?
200

The middle schools emphasis on focuses on meeting_______ over the academics.

What are the emotional needs of adolescents?

200
It has been this many years since students have made improvements in high school reading scores....perhaps longer than you have been alive.

What is 30 years?

200
phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension

What are the 5 pillars of literacy instruction?

300

The learner gains familiarity with the language and its sounds. A person in this stage becomes aware of sound similarities between words, learns to predict the next part in a familiar story, and may start to recognize a few familiar written words.

What is Stage 0 Prereading?

300

Children in the early grades follow a predictable pattern sequence characterized by: labeling, listing, connecting, sequencing, and ________

What is narrating?

300

What are two motivational influences on adolescent readers?

What are autonomy and valuing opinions?

300

According to Chapter 9, this has a significant on the power dynamic of society. 

What is dialect?

300

This theorist coined the term "emergent literacy".

Who is Marie Clay?

400

The reader at this stage begins to be able to analyze with they read, understand different points of view, and react critically to what they read.

What is Stage 4 Multiple Viewpoints?

400

In the middle years, (3-5), there is a mismatch between the focus of content versus the teaching of _________

What is content literacy?

400

This word describes the changes that occur in the period of development from puberty through the early stages of adolescence.

What is transescence?

400

The Internet, text messaging, Facebook, Instagram, and online gaming communities are examples of these type of literacies.

What are "new literacies" or "multiple literacies"?

400

This government agency represented Americas first "attempt" at federal policy regarding education.

What is the Freedman's Bureau?

500

The learner, familiar with basic sound-symbol relationships and familiar with more words, improves decoding skills, expands the number of words recognized by site, and builds fluency.

◦Stage 3. Reading for Learning

What is Stage 2: Confirmation, Fluency, Ungluing from Print?

500

According to Chapter 7, this should be at the center of language and literacy activities in the classroom.

What is meaning?

500
Surprisingly, research has demonstrated that instruction in these two areas can improve the reading proficiency of middle school students.

What is fluency and strategy instruction?

500

Giving students the opportunity to do this frequently during the day sharpens their writing, raeding. and overall achievement on high stakes assessments.

What is writing?

500

This president enacted NCLB.

Who is George Bush?

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