Getting focused on and excited about reading
Developing purpose for reading
Activating questions/beliefs/predictions
Making connections with prior knowledge
What do we want to make important while we prepare students to read?
100
Are used to coherently depict relationships among concepts
What are Graphic Organizers?
100
Interviews, Observations, Conversations, Writings, Records
What are ways to know your students?
100
A consideration when selecting multicultural literature to integrate?
Is the story an authentic depiction of the culture it intends to represent?
What are the perspectives of the diverse characters?
Can students relate their own experiences to those in the text?
100
Ask students "what do you know about ..."
If students don't have sufficient prior knowledge, teach or re-teach concepts before introducing new material.
How do we assess students' prior knowledge?
200
Give a key word and the students call out their ideas, associations, and responses that cue.
What is brainstorming?
200
Thinking ...
Which words are most important?
Is this word encountered frequently?
Can it be figured out from context?
What is Strategic Vocabulary Selection?
200
Objectives
Assessment
Instruction
Materials
What is Planning Backwards or Understanding by Design?
200
Provide comprehensible input
Use strategies for vocabulary development
Use the repeated strategy
Use learning strategies for active engagement
How do we adapt instruction in content classrooms?
200
To improve instruction and provide student feedback
Ongoing throughout the class/unit
To check for inderstanding
What is Formative Assessment
300
Act it out
What is Dramatic Role Play?
300
Provide a description, explanation, or example of the new term.
What is Step 1 of the 6 Step Process for Teaching New Terms?
300
Assessment should be diagnostic, formative and summative and impact student learning. This is a recursive process. Assessment guides instruction; the instruction takes place. The effectiveness of instruction is then determined by assessment which again drives instruction
What is Increased Student Achievement through the Structure of Programs?
300
Positive relationships with family and community
Cultural sensitivity
Active teaching methods
What can a teacher do to implement culturally responsive instruction in a content area classroom?
300
To measure student competency or mastery
End of unit/course
For grades/promotion
What is Summative Assessment?
400
Before reading, as kids ....
What do they know?
What do they want to learn?
After reading, ask ...
What did they learn?
What is a KWL chart?
400
Everyday or basic words which rarely require direct instruction?
Child, Happy, Book
What are Tier 1 Vocabulary words
400
Curriculum - Instruction - Assessment
What is linear design?
400
Identity and Achievement
Equity and excellence
Developmental appropriateness
Teaching the whole child
Student-Teacher relationships
What are the five essential themes for a culturally relevant pedagogy?
400
Propaganda and Persuasion
Vocabulary of Film and Video
Advertising and marketing
Bias and Objectivity
What is Media Literacy?
500
Color code
Flag important passages
Show thinking strategies
Reference points
What are Post-It Response Notes?
500
Relate to a specific domain such as Physics.
Ex: absolute value, metaphor
What are Tier III Vocabulary Words?
500
RTI, ELL, IEP, Cultural Differences, Age Appropriate Development
What is knowing student difference and incorporating them into planning?
500
There is a more diverse population in the United States and less assimilation is occurring.
Why are today's classrooms more diverse than they were several decades ago?
500
Digital literacies; online, messaging, sms, phones and computers. They combine letters, symbols, colours, sounds and graphics to extend language and the ways we communicate.