Chapter 3: Vocabulary
In literacy, this word means the study of the form and structure or words.
What is Morphology?
This literacy practice typically involves a text selected by the teacher to be read publicly to a group of students
What is "read-aloud?"
This three letter acronym is a questioning strategy that encourages content analysis and open discussion rather than information regurgitation.
What is "Questioning the Author" (QTA)
This classroom speaking activity involves a long form discussion of a topic facilitated by the teacher through open ended questions.
What is a Socratic Seminar?
This numerical designation describes the most challenging and subject-specific level of vocabulary word.
What is "Tier 3?"
This comprehension strategy involves making informed predictions about what may be coming up in a given text
What is predicting?
The "S" is SQ3R, this step involves skimming a reading to get a general understanding of its content.
What is "Survey?"
The second round of a standard debate format, here debaters can refute points made by the opposing team in their initial argument.
What is "Rebuttal?"
This category of word-instruction worthiness describes a word that is fundamentally important to it's content area
What is Representative?
This comprehension strategy involves "reading between the lines" for information that may not be explicitly written
What is inferencing?
This style of questioning involves a systemic examination of a reading and involves three different levels of questions.
What are "Text Dependent Questions" (TDQS)
This teaching strategy involves student directed groups working together to read and interpret a common text that is often broken into small segments.
What is Reciprocal Teaching?
"This term is used to describe the complex web knowledge of a word, including metalinguistic, morphological, and patterned (Nagy and Scott, 1990)"
What is "word schema?"
This comprehension strategy involves using both prior knowledge and new information to form new thoughts and ideas.
What is synthesizing?
This questioning strategy involves four specific types of questions, including "Think and Search" and "Author and You" questions.
What is Question-Answer Relationship (QAR)
What is Positive Interdependence?