Reading
Teachers select various genres to build oral vocabulary, model fluent reading, model think alouds, build background knowledge and facilitate discussion
What is a Read Aloud?
An opportunity to provide explicit, direct instruction, modeling, and guided practice.
What is a mini-lesson?
Students sort words to illustrate spelling or phonics principles.
What is Word Study?
Students should be reading books on their independent level for pleasure!
What is Independent Reading?
The students are working in focused workstations to complete reading, writing, or word study activities.
What is a Literacy Station(s)?
This component of Balanced Literacy provides explicit, direct instruction, modeling, and guided practice.
What is a Mini-Lesson?
The teacher and students compose the text together.
What is shared writing?
What elements are included in word study?
What is Phonics, Spelling, and Vocabulary?
What level should a text be for a Read Aloud?
What is above the instructional level?
What are the Fountas and Pinnell Levels? (Alphabetical)
What is A-Z?
This component of Balanced Literacy provides the opportunity for the teacher and students to read together.
What is Shared Reading?
What is interactive writing?
Students should have opportunities to practice these words during word study
What are sight words?
There are 3 cueing systems that students can use while reading. A reader can read well by using just 1 of the cueing systems.
What is false?
What is the maximum number of students in a guided reading group?
What is 6?
The teacher meets with small groups to read and provide differentiated instruction using leveled texts. Grouping changes based on student needs.
What is Guided Reading?
What tool should all students have during writing workshop?
What is a writers notebook?
The ability to recognize and manipulate the sound properties of spoken words, such as syllables, initial sounds, rhyming parts, and phonemes.
What is phonological awareness?
The book that serves as a guide that supports balanced literacy throughout an instructional day.
What is the Literacy Continuum?
Group students based on strategies they need instead of by their reading level (guided reading)
What are strategy groups?
A balance of comprehension, vocabulary, fluency, phonemic awareness and phonics, listening, speaking, viewing, small group, whole group and one on one instruction.
What is Balanced Literacy?
What is independent writing?
The ability to recognize and manipulate individual phonemes in spoken words.
What is Phonemic Awareness?
The Fountas and Pinnell Assessment breaks the comprehension section into three parts. What are they?
What is Thinking Within the Text, Beyond the Text, and About the Text?
As learners read during guided reading lessons, strategy or during an independent reading time (see the next section), you can listen as they read and offer feedback and support where needed.
What is conferring? What are conferences?