Conversations, small group discussions and campfire talks are examples of this kind of speaking activity.
What is informal speaking?
100
Ongoing and systematic checking of children's progress guides the teacher.
What is formative assessment?
100
Use explanations, not definitions.
What guides vocabulary instruction?
100
Comprehension depends on these two steps.
What is decoding and making meaning.
100
Writing process.
What is prewriting and planning; drafting, revising and editing, publishing?
200
This is important because you can only read words that are in your speaking and listening vocabulary.
What is orality or oral language?
200
Curriculum based assessment and standardized tests are examples of this.
What is summative assessment.
200
These are the three tiers of vocabulary instruction.
What are basic (common) words; academic; subject specialist words?
200
The ability to understand a text, develop and interpret meaning and critique it.
What is comprehension?
200
Short chapters, illustrations, and reader-friendly font.
What are chapter books?
300
Fluency is defined by these three parts.
What is speed, accuracy and expression?
300
Informal Reading Inventories (IRI) help teachers do this.
What is "finding the child's (instructional) reading level?"
300
The it is the word making system of the language.
What is morphology?
300
A combination of interesting, leveled, and aptly organized.
What is readability?
300
This rubric is commonly used to assess writing.
What is 6 traits (+1)
400
This is measured by using a running record.
What is accuracy?
400
Teachers use many kinds of assessment: observations, pretests, free writing, class presentations, self assessment charts, writing samples and weekly tests to learn about this.
What is vocabulary?
400
Two steps of making sense of a word.
What is the process of decoding and then meaning making.
400
This word refers to the text structure and format as well as its content.
What is genre?
400
It differs in it symbolic language, organizational principles, and thematic content.
What is story language?
500
Reader's theatre, repeated readings and teacher modeling all support this development.
What is fluency?
500
Content, process and product are considered.
What is differentiation?
500
Relate new words to the known, use context, consult resources, use the words and commit to learning.
What guides vocabulary instruction?
500
Predicting, background knowledge development, interest generating, skimming headings are all examples of this activity.
What are some pre-reading activities?
500
Making a map, drawing cartoons, conducting research, writing a poem, composing a song or writing another chapter are examples of this kind of assignment.
What is Reading Response. (affective not efferent)