Text Structure
This text structure organizes ideas based on similarities and differences.
What is "compare and contrast"
The answers to these types of questions are found right there, in one single place in the text.
What are "right-there questions"
This statement contains who/what the text is about, what happened, and is stated in about 10 words or less.
What is "the Main Idea"
In this multicomponent intervention, students preview, click and clunk, get the gist, and summarize text.
What is "collaborative strategic reading"
Using morphemes to define unknown words, finding main ideas, asking questions, and summarizing text are strategies that fall within this type of literacy framework.
What is "content-area literacy or general literacy"
This scaffold/support helps students to organize their notes to clarify relationships between ideas when reading texts with different structures.
What is "a graphic organizer"
This is the recommended amount of time that teachers should spend previewing text.
What is "5-10 minutes"
Starting with the letter "p," this word describes the act of restating the main idea in your own words. It is also a strategy used to teach main idea.
What is "paraphrasing"
This feature of learning is common across all multicomponent interventions. Choose from:
a. summarization
b. discussion
c. teacher-led instruction
d. exclusive use of expository texts
What is "discussion"
Learning to evaluate bias in a historical document or explain the scientific process in an experiment are examples of this type of literacy knowledge
What is "disciplinary literacy"
These are the two general types of text structures.
What is "narrative and expository"
If teachers want students to be able to answer higher-order thinking questions (i.e., critical thinking questions), then they should teach students to ask these types of questions from text.
What are "higher-order or critical thinking questions."
This type of written response involves combining the main ideas across several paragraphs of text into an integrated, cohesive piece of writing.
What is "a summary"
Teachers engage is this instructional technique when showing students how to use each of the strategies in multi-component interventions.
What is "modeling"
This type of educator is expected to be the "expert" when it comes to teaching middle and high school students general literacy skills.
What is "the special educator"
This text structure is signified by the sentences below:
"The mixture of vinegar and baking soda results in a chemical reaction, which includes excessive bubbling and in some cases, explosion."
What is "cause - effect."
OR
What is "description"
In this type of text-preview, visual representations are used to present key ideas and vocabulary and to help students make connections to previously learned materials.
What is "concept mapping or semantic mapping"
Klingner et al. suggest to incorporate this scaffold as a "starting point" when students are just learning main idea, to eliminate the barrier of reading complex text.
What are "pictures"
One goal of reading and discussing text in groups is for students to use their background knowledge and the text itself to arrive, together, at this
What is "a collective understanding of text."
There is very little (and perhaps the least) research in how to support students' discipline-specific literacy in this discipline.
What is "math"
This approach to teaching text structure helps students apply learning strategies to identify different text structures to improve text understanding. (hint - 3 words)
What is "cognitive strategy instruction."
In this instructional approach, students learn how to answer “right there,” “think and search,” and “the author and you” questions.
What is "QAR or Question Answer Relationships"
This prerequisite skill is a building block for writing high-quality summaries.
What is "main idea"
This original multi-component intervention approach, designed by Palinscar & Brown (1984), formed the basis for other approaches that came later.
What is "reciprocal teaching"
This term refers to the situation where students use content-area skills or strategies they have learned in one class in another class.
What is "generalization"