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Sharing Good Books with Young Children
Teaching Early Reading Skills
Teaching Early Writing
Assessing Young Children's Language: Finding Out What They Know and Can Do
Challenge
100
According to Carol Coople and Sue Bredekamp, this is the single most important activity for building children's understandings and skills essential for reading success.
What is reading aloud to children?
100
According to researchers, awareness of THIS is an example of children's ability to detect words that rhyme
What is onset & rime?
100
The teacher has a brief one-on-one conference with children about their writing.
What is "writing time" portion of a writing workshop?
100
The two types of assessment teachers use to measure their children's progress toward the achievement of the state standards.
What is ongoing and on demand assessment?
100
According to your text, THIS should be taught according to the child's current interest and activities.
What is the way to teach letters in the alphabet?
200
Teachers should share all genres of literature with young children. Yet, when researchers studied the read-aloud practices of preschool teachers they discovered that teachers in the study read only 5% of books from this genre.
What is informative text?
200
The combining of individual sounds to form words.
What is blending?
200
In this strategy the teacher engages in a "written conversation" with students.
What is dialogue writing?
200
Determining what is important to learn about students' literacy knowledge and skills.
What is the teacher's first task in assessing early literacy?
200
This is the order for direct instruction of phonemic awareness
What is phoneme isolation, phoneme blending, phoneme segmentation, phoneme manipulation?
300
Creative dramatics, puppets, felt and flannel boards, story drama, cooking and art projects are all strategies to do this.
What are ways to extend literature?
300
This principle states that letters of the alphabet have a relationship with the speech sounds.
What is The Alphabetic Principle?
300
Strings of letters that show no evidence of letter-sound relationship.
What is nonphonetic letter strings?
300
These provide specific examples of what children know and can do.
What are anecdotal notes?
300
This is simply defined as the relationship between letters and sounds.
What is phonics?
400
One way to enhance emergent reading and literacy skills while having a conversation about the books that focus teaching children new vocabulary and improving overall verbal fluency.
What is Dialogic Reading?
400
In this approach to building children's ability to recognize words, children choose words that are personally meaningful and that they would like to learn to read.
What is the "key word" strategy?
400
Spelling using letter-sound relationships. This can range from using one letter per word to using a letter for several sounds in each word.
What is invented spelling?
400
These observational aids specify which behaviors to look for and provide a convenient system for record keeping due to their simple marking that indicates the knowledge of a skill or accomplishment of a task or activity.
What is a checklist assessment tool?
400
These two types of standardized tests are designed to measure the accomplishments of one child relative to the whole class and the other is developed with a specific set of objectives that reflect district, state, federal, or national learning standards.
What are Norm-referenced tests and Criterion-referenced tests?
500
According to research conducted by Shirley Brice Heath for her book, Ways with Words (1983), differences within social and cultural groups strongly predict how families read at home to children and is a predictor of a child's reading success in school..
What is cultural variation in story reading?
500
Before children can become aware of phonemes, they must first become aware of these three larger units of oral language.
What are words, syllabus and sounds?
500
A strategy for teachers to demonstrate the relationship between speaking, writing, and reading.It can help children realize that what is said can be written down in print and that print can be read back as oral language.
What is shared writing?
500
This type of standardized test is administrated, scored and interpreted in the same way for all test-takers.
What is on demand assessments?
500
Teachers first select children. Teachers develop curriculum and weekly lesson plans and decide on vocabulary, sounds and letters to be emphasized each week. The assessment is given at the same time each week following the same procedures and wait time for each child. In step 4 the scores are graphed for review and analysis. The results are used to establish expectations for each child, evaluate the group as a whole, review disabilities and include parents in the findings.
What is Curriculum-Based Measurement?