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100

What model is recommended when teaching informational text?

CORE model (connect, organize, reflect, extend)

100

How does the use of "wait time" benefit students and their responses to questions?

waiting 5 seconds results in longer, more elaborative responses, higher- level thought processes and fewer no-responses and "I don't knows"

100

________ is an excellent device for _______ ________. Filling in missing words forces a reader to use _______ and syntactic clues together with symbol-_________ ___________ and to _________ meaning.

This is an example of what procedure?

Cloze is an excellent device for building comprehension. Filling in missing words forces a reader to use semantic and syntactic clues together with symbol-sound information and to predict meaning.

Cloze procedure

200

What group of students are graphic organizers especially helpful?

English Language Learners

200

How can guided reading help readers?

Students can receive help alongside peers at similar reading levels. This can take pressure off students and the focus is on the reading level at hand. This sequential activity helps to introduce the text, reading and discussing the text, and elaborating beyond the text.

200

Why might diverting eye contact with a student or rapidly calling on another student after a few moments of silence make answering questions difficult?

Students could lose self-esteem and trust within their teacher because their teacher is expressing that they are not trusting in their student’s abilities. Students need a few seconds for their mental processes to be engaged so they can answer the question. If teachers are noticing the child struggling, they can scaffold their student’s answers

300

What differentiates pretelling and retelling from one another?

  • Pretelling involves students learning how to explain daily tasks, such as making a sandwich or taking a pet for a walk. Retelling requires the child to think backward in order to reconstruct the steps of a task, as well as think forward to put them in order.
300

How does knowledge of structure benefit the reader?

  • It focuses attention on individual ideas, provides a clearer view of the relationship among ideas, and is a framework to aid in retention of information. It can help students create a situation model.
300

What are some skills that can help to improve comprehension and responses to related questions?

  • Wait time, responsive elaboration, think pair share…
400

What is one of the best strategies to use to build both comprehension and awareness of text structure?

Retelling

400

What type of structures presents differences and/or similarities? Uses although, however, similar, different.

Comparison-Contrast

400

What are the types of questions are used in an arrangement of skills from least demanding to those that require the highest mental thinking.

Remember, Understand, Apply, Analyze, Evaluate, Create

500

What are the five steps of reflective reading? 

1. Get the basic meaning of the text

2. Get the main idea of the text

3. Analysis

4. Evaluation 

5. *Could possibly put “look at the piece in terms of big ideas/essential questions and makes connections for the 5th step.

500

If a teacher is distinguishing what the problem in Horton Hears a Who is and then lists the major events leading up to the resolution we can conclude that she/he is preparing for what type of lesson?

  • A story elements map
500

Explain Bloom’s Taxonomy

  • Taxonomy is an arrangement of skills from least demanding to those that require the highest mental powers. Bloom’s revised taxonomy consists of:
  • -Remember
  • -Understand
  • -Apply
  • -Analyze
  • -Evaluate
  • -Create