The Basics for Teaching Literacy
Direct Instruction is when _______________.
Teachers model or teach students a skill, strategy or process.
What are the 3 components a teacher needs to write an objective?
Learning Behavior, Criterion and Conditions
What is Scaffolding?
Teacher support or guidance from the teacher.
What measuring or assessment tool is used to grade a student's performance?
What is Annotating?
Engaging with the text by marking it up through highlighting and writing notes.
The ability of children and young adults to learn to speak, read, write and think.
What is the format for instructional procedures?
I DO, WE DO, YOU DO
What are the 3 parts of a Standards-Based Literacy Lesson?
1. Introducing the text
2. Reading and Responding to the text
3. Extending the text
What are two types of assessment?
Formative and summative.
True or False: Annotations can ONLY be used in ELA.
FALSE. Annotations can be used in any content area that requires reading and comprehesion.
What is DECODING?
The ability to figure out the pronunciation of printed words and determine the meaning of the words.
What is the process of assessment?
What are the 5 Modes of Writing?
3. Guided Writing
4. Shared Writing
5. Write-Aloud
True or Fales: Teachers do not always need to have an activity that matches the objective. They can also do activities for fun so that they can use up the full 45 minutes of the lesson.
FALSE. All activities and assessents MUST always align to the goal/objective.
True or False: ANNOTATION can only be used in high school and college.
FALSE. Annotation can be introduced at 5th grade or middle school.
What is COMPREHENSION?
To be able to construct meaning by interacting with the text or knowing what the text means.
What is missing from this objective?
SWBAT go on a field trip after the lesson.
The LEARNING BEHAVIOR, CRITERION and CONDITION.
What are the 5 Modes of Reading?
1. Independent Reading
2. Cooperative Reading
3. Guided Reading
4. Shared Reading
5. Read-Aloud
What is the difference between Assessment and Evaluation?
Assessment is measuring student progress towards a goal, while evaluation is determining how well the student is achieving or has achieved.
What are the 3 strategies for Annotating?
Highligting/underlining
Margin Notes
Symbols
What are the Stages of Literacy Development?
Early Emergent Literacy, Emergent Literacy, Beginning Reading and Writing, Almost Fluent Reading and Writing, and Fluent Reading and Writing.
Does this assessment align to the objective?
SWBAT identify at least 6 living things by writing a 1 page essay.
Assessment: 1 page essay.
No it does not align.
What are the 6 blocks that make up CORE INSTRUCTION, instruction that all students need.
1. Daily Independent Reading
2. Daily Independent Writing
3. Reading: Learning Skills and Strategies
4. Reading: Application of Skills and Strategies
5. Writing: Learning to Write
6. Writing: Developmentally Appropriate Writing
What are the steps of the assessment cycle?
1. Prepare the Assessment
2. Give out the Assessment
3. Gather and Analyze the Results
4. Make Decisions
5. Back to Preparing another Assessment
WHY should teachers use this strategy?
1. Improve comprehension
2. Retain Information
3. Prepares for Class Discussions
4. Encourages Deep Thinking