Civics/Economics
The three branches of government in the U.S.
What is executive, legislative, and judicial?
Rereading, questioning, and visualizing are examples of this
What are reading comprehension strategies?
The part of a map that tells you what the symbols mean
What is a key?
This is what ELL stands for
What is English Language Learner?
The five stages of the writing process
What are prewriting, drafting, revising/editing, proofreading, and publishing?
The economic concept for when something is in short supply
What is scarcity?
Students' ability to read smoothly and automatically
What is fluency?
The part of the map that tells you which way is north
What is a compass rose?
True or False? Most ELLs were born in the United States, and are U.S. citizens.
What is TRUE
The point in the writing process when a writer should worry about whether or not everything is spelled correctly
What is proofreading?
The first 10 Amendments to the Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights?
Small groups of students gathered together to discuss a book in depth
What are literature circles?
A geographic coordinate system that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols.
What is latitude and longitude?
During a read-aloud, a first grade ELL is able to correctly point to an illustration of a horse when asked, "Where is the horse?" However, in an oral retelling after the read aloud, he is unable to recall and produce the word "horse." This is an example that this type of vocabulary develops faster than productive vocabulary.
What is receptive?
During this type of writing, a teacher will scribe the words, but the students are now invited to contribute to the piece.
What is shared writing (as opposed to modeled or independent)?
This is what is given up because you choose to do something else
What is opportunity cost?
These are high-frequency words that occur across contexts (as coined by Beck & McKeown)
What is tier-2 vocabulary?
An artifact, document, diary, manuscript, autobiography, recording, or any other source of information that was created at the time under study
What is a primary source?
An EL student says "holded" for "held." This student is most clearly demonstrating what?
Overgeneralization (of the regular past tense marker -ed to irregular verbs)
In this type of writing instruction the teacher provides mini-lessons and conferences individually with students as they write
What is writer's workshop?
An experiential learning method in which interactors improvise with learners as part of a simulated scenario.
What is a role playing simulation?
A literary genre in which the plot takes place in a setting located in the past.
What is historical fiction?
The last of the original thirteen colonies to become a state
What is Rhode Island?
A teacher asks a student, "Is your homework assignment wet?" and the student answers, "I forgot my umbrella." This is an example of competence in which dimension of language?
What is pragmatics?
How do we mark the plural possessive in regular nouns in English?
What is s'? (the students' answers were right)