Reading Skills
Automatic abilities readers develop to understand text.
What are reading skills?
Restating the most important
ideas from a text concisely in your
own words.
What is summarizing?
a form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language.
understanding spoken language
What is listening?
a piece of literature (text) that can be read and reread for specific learning purposes.
What is a mentor text?
deliberate, conscious plans readers apply to build meaning.
What are reading strategies?
Asking and refining questions
before, during, and after reading
to drive deeper understanding.
What is questioning?
A comparison of two unlike things that have something in common using like or as
What is a simile?
Decoding and comprehending written text
What is reading?
a visual display of information and that helps students organize and connect information.
What is a graphic organizer?
Identifying key parts of a story
(setting, characters, problem,
events, solution) and the order in
which they occur.
What is story elements and sequencing?
Anticipating what will happen
next by combining background
knowledge with textual evidence.
What is predicting/prior knowledge?
Structured form of discussion where students are encouraged to engage in meaningful, respectful conversations that promote deeper understanding and learning.
What is accountable talk?
presenting information through images, either alone or along with spoken or written words
What is visually representing?
A step in the writing process, the writer puts pen/pencil to paper or fingers to keyboard and begins to compose their ideas.
What is drafting?
Examining a character’s traits,
motivations, relationships, and
growth across a text.
What is character analysis?
Creating mental images using
sensory language and details in
the text.
What is visualizing?
a traditional Japanese form of poetry that has three lines with a 5-7-5 syllable pattern.
What is a haiku?
understanding visual images and connecting them to accompanying spoken or written words
What is viewing?
A step in the writing process: a detailed review focused on correcting grammar, punctuation, spelling, and other mechanical aspects of the writing.
What is revising?
Using text clues plus prior
knowledge to figure out ideas not
directly stated.
What is making inferences?
Resolving confusion and
combining new ideas with
existing knowledge to form a new
understanding.
What is clarifying/synthesizing?
Words that imitate or sound like what they mean
What is onomatopoeia?
An inquiry-based teaching method that improves a student's ability to describe, analyze, and interpret imagery and information through observing and discussing visual art.
What is the VTS (Visual Thinking Strategy)?
These are a type of what type of writing assessment:
Journals, quick writes/exit tickets, graphic organizers or writing frames, peer feedback, teacher observations, and anecdotal notes
What is informal assessment?