Vocabulary
Vocabulary & Pre-reading Strategies
Talking to Learn
Writing to Learn
Study Guides & Strategies
100
to remove barriers to students’ understanding of text, to promote acquisition of the language of a content area, and to build a relationship between word knowledge and reading comprehension
What is the purpose of vocabulary development in content area reading?
100
student talk
Which highly available and important classroom resource is considered only rarely or even totally overlooked?
100
focus the discussion toward a goal, arrange the classroom to facilitate spontaneous discussion, and promote listening
What are guiding principles when encouraging discussions?
100
writing facilitates learning, writing improves thinking, and writing is related to reading
What are reasons to incorporate writing in a content area classroom?
100
structure
What do students look for as they become more aware of studying text?
200
knowledge rating scale, semantic map, and list-group-label
What is considered a strategy for activating what students already know about a topic?
200
KWL, Discussion Web, and GRP
What are some strategies designed to activate prior knowledge?
200
presumes that students have a solid understanding of the topic they are discussing
What is a reflective discussion?
200
retention of memorized information, greater comprehension, and thinking skills
What does writing after reading promote?
200
summary note
What is a type of note a student can use in order to condense the ideas of a text into a brief, clear, and concise statement.
300
sorting
A strategy that successfully promotes active vocabulary development by encouraging students to look for shared meanings among words?
300
KWL
Which strategy asks students to generate a list of questions about a topic they are going to study?
300
student collaboration, critical analysis and interpretation, and summarization
What are elements of Discussion Webs?
300
development of editing skills
What is least developed in a classroom that incorporates reading and writing together?
300
text patterns
What do students need to perceive to make them more likely to remember and interpret the ideas they encounter in reading.
400
graphic organizers
What are visual frameworks or diagrams that use content vocabulary to help students anticipate concepts and their relationships to one another in the reading material.
400
enables students to “argue” their responses during a group discussion in order to increase their motivation and improve their vocabulary development
What is OPIN?
400
to explore the significance of the material in their own lives
What is the purpose of the valuation phase in the Intra-Act strategy?
400
a way for students to see how readers might respond to their writing
What do student response groups provide?
400
What are the students’ competencies? What depth of understanding are the students expected to achieve? What is the difficulty level of the material?
What questions are asked by the teacher when constructing a three-level guide?
500
word structure clues
What are students relying upon when they look at the word itself or part of the word for information clues about its meaning?
500
a morpheme
What is the smallest unit of meaning in a word.
500
GRP
Which strategy places a premium on accuracy as students reconstruct the author’s message?
500
double-entry journals, learning logs, and response journals
What are considered journal writing?
500
rote memorization
What leads to short-lived recall of unrelated pieces of information?
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