Writing Across the Content Areas
New Literacies
Culturally Responsive Teaching in Diverse Classrooms
Assessment
Learning with Trade Books/ Teaching Vocabulary
100
Academic and response journals
What are ways to stimulate writing in the classroom?
100
This type of learning is non-linear and gives students the opportunity to use hyperlinks and explore other websites
What is the difference between new literacies and old literacies?
100
Politics, social, and economic changes are all attributes to this
What is, why are today's classrooms more diverse?
100
Interviews, anecdotal, inventories, conferences, and observations
What are examples of activating student's prior knowledge?
100
"I am Malala", "Boys in the Boat" would be an example of this
What is a non-fiction trade book?
200
Providing informal opportunities to explore and clarify ideas and concepts
What are examples of writing to learn
200
It is important to learn new literacies because students will be using these types of literacies on their own and it is important that they know how to use them. It is also important because it differentiates instruction.
What is: Why is teaching new literacies essential for students?
200
Interviewing the parents of the student and having the students write their own autobiographies
What are the ABCs of cultural understanding and communication?
200
Formal, developed by test publishers. Multiple-choice, testing all at one time on pen and paper. State proficiency testing of content knowledge. Compare performance of one group with students in other schools or classrooms; determine funding, support for districts and schools
What is a high-stakes testing approach?
200
Fantasy, poetry, drama, sports, mysteries
What are examples of categories of fiction trade books?
300
Letters of recommendation, resumes, expense accounts, news stories, sermons, telegrams, eulogies, and bumper stickers
What are examples of real writing
300
True or false: Larger texts can be beneficial to all students not just students who have bad vision?
What is True. It can also help students who do not have large attention spans.
300
Whether or not the story is an authentic depiction of the culture it intends to represent.
What is one thing to consider when selecting multicultural literature?
300
Informal. Developed by teachers and students. Continuously evolving throughout unit. Classroom tests, checklists, observations, interviews, etc. designed to evaluate the understanding of the content. You can make qualitative judgments about student’s strengths. The feedback usually involves notes, profiles, discussions, recommendations, etc.
What is an authentic approach?
300
Say the word Look for clues Ask yourself what this word might mean Put the word in the text.
What is the SLAP strategy?
400
Every teacher, despite their content, can incorporate writing into their classroom
What is the belief that it is not just the job of the English teacher to incorporate writing into their classroom?
400
Computer adaptive technology is good for a student struggling
What is an RtI to a student working with new literacies
400
1. Identity and achievement 2. Equity and Excellence 3. Developmental appropriateness 4. Teaching the whole child 5. Student-teacher relationships
What are the five essential themes for a culturally responsive instruction?
400
A competitive grants process intended to motivate states and schools to take a different and more aggressive approach to improve public education.
What is Race to the Top (2009)?
400
KWL and Anticipation Guides
What are examples of before reading activities?
500
Good readers are often good writers
What is the relationship between reading and writing?
500
1. Creativity and innovation 2. Communication and collaboration 3. Research and information fluency 4. Critical thinking, problem-solving, and decision making 5. Digital citizenship 6. Technology operations and concepts.
What are the six ISTE standards? a.k.a the 21st century standards.
500
1. Additive Approach 2. Contributions Approach 3. Transformative Approach 4. Decision-making/ social action Approach
What is the four instructional perspectives related to teaching in a multicultural classroom?
500
Average scores of a sampling of students
What are norms?
500
1. Access to books 2. Appealing books that address student interests 3. Classroom environments that encourage reading as a social activity 4. Encouragement from teachers and parents
What are a few factors of Self-Selected Reading Success (SSR)
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