Random Facts
Comprehension
Strategies
Assessment
The "Big 5"
100
______ out of 5 children will have difficulty in reading.
What is 2 out of 5?
100
This requires a reader to make a statement about a passage and support his ideas.
What is a critical response, heart question, on my own question?
100
Setting a purpose, front loading and predicting are examples of this.
What is a prereading strategy?
100
Content area teachers work collaboratively to create this type of short assessment to measure students' understanding of a particular standard.
What is a common assessment?
100
The ability to understand text.
What is comprehension?
200
The % of time kids aged 9 to 14 spend reading during non-school hours.
What is 1%?
200
Facts, details and relationships between ideas that are stated directly in a reading passage.
What is a Literal or Text based question, right there question or hand question.
200
Questioning, graphic organizers and visualizing are examples of this.
What are during reading strategies?
200
A Cartwright benchmark test that measures a particular set of standards based on a pacing guide.
What is Galileo?
200
The ability to learn, understand, and use words correctly in context.
What is vocabulary?
300
The number of books a student needs to read over the summer to maintain or improve reading ability.
What is 5?
300
Use of passage information to draw conclusions, make generalizations, summarize ideas, identify implied comparison or time relations and to generalize the author's beliefs.
What is an inference, think and search or brain question?
300
Reflection, how to use the information read, and talking with others can be an examples of this.
What are post reading strategies?
300
A one minute test that measures fluency. It is currently being used in the primary grades in Cartwright.
What is RCBM or Aims Web?
300
The ability to read a passage with speed, accuracy and intonation.
What is fluency?
400
Primary students focus on learning to read, whereas middle school students focus on ___________ to ___________.
What is reading to learn?
400
The 3 basic types of comprehension questions.
What is literal, inferential and critical response?
400
This is a follow up strategy after students make a prediction.
What is confirmation?
400
Some type of activity at the end of class to measure knowledge of the objective.
What is daily monitoring? (Exit card, thumbs up/down)
400
The ability to decode words.
What is phonics?
500
When the state of Arizona projects how many prison beds it will need, it factors in the number of kids who read well in which grade?
What is grade 4?
500
Our students struggle the most with which type of comprehension question.
What is inference?
500
Bold faced words, titles, italics and captions are called this.
What are text features?
500
An assessment that Castro will use to measures fluency and comprehension. It also analyzes student performance and gives focus for instruction. It is most commonly used in elementary schools.
What is DRA or Developmental Reading Assessment?
500
Prerequisite skills for learning to read.
What is phonemic awareness?
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