Literacy Matters
A book that is written for children by an author and published to be sold to a consumer or library.
Trade book
This strategy allow students to anticipate story content.
story impressions
This strategy asks students to generate a list of questions about a topic they are going to study.
KWL
In this strategy, students pick words they believe the class should learn and answer questions such as why they think the class should learn the word.
Vocabulary Self-Collection Strategy
An internal text structure that points out similarities between ideas.
Compare and contrast
A feature of a content text such as a table of contents.
external text structure
This strategy invites the students to visualize what they are reading.
Guided Imagery
When students ask themselves, "What do I need to know?" and "How well do I already know it?" they are relying upon _________.
metacognition
This strategy encourages students to brainstorm words, classify them, and make predictions about the content to be studied.
List-Group-Label
A model for studying trade books that involves students independently completing projects allowing teachers to differentiate instruction.
Individual inquiry
Students’ interests, background knowledge, and culturally inherited ways of knowing
Funds of knowledge
If a teacher wanted to arrange cooperative learning groups so that each student in a group was responsible for investigating a subtopic of the central topic, this would be the best learning group to use.
Jigsaw
A student's judgment about his or her own reading capabilities.
Self-efficacy
This vocabulary strategy organizes conceptual information by identifying class or category, attributes or properties, and examples or illustrations.
Concept of Definition Word Maps
This graphic organizer would best be used in order to learn about cause and effect relationships in a text.
Series-of-events chain
An assignment that guides students through online resources to gather information
WebQuest
In the use of this strategy, both the students and the teacher read the same segment of text before the students question the teacher about the passage.
ReQuest
A type of note a student can use in order to condense the ideas of a text into a brief, clear, and concise statement.
Summary note
Visual frameworks or diagrams that use content vocabulary to help students anticipate concepts and their relationships to one another in the reading material.
graphic organizers
This graphic organizer would best be used to show the relationship that exists between superordinate concepts and subordinate concepts.
Network tree
This instructional approach to teaching multicultural concepts tends to reflect the surface level of a culture, but does not allow for in-depth understanding.
Contributions approach
When teachers use this strategy, they model four comprehension activities, which students then imitate.
Reciprocal Teaching
RAFT is an acronym that stands for __________.
Role, audience, form (format), topic
In this strategy, students "argue" their responses during a group discussion in order to increase their motivation and improve their vocabulary development.
OPIN
This instructional approach differs from literature circles in that students work together to create a common understanding of a concept.
idea circles