Teachers use this instructional strategy to read literature - information books, novels, and poetry - with children who cannot read those books independently.
What is shared reading?
100
He saw the whole social world as being articulated through the configurations of capital.
Who is Pierre Bourdieu?
100
He was appointed Minister of Education on June 10, 2013.
Who is Peter Fassbender?
100
Educators thought that reading could be taught by breaking it down into component skills to be learned one at a time.
What is bottom-up perspectives (transmission model)?
100
The temporary supports educators give to learners to help them extend their skills and knowledge to a higher level of competence.
What is scaffolding?
200
In this instructional strategy, words are deleted from a written passage and readers fill in the blanks using their knowledge of the language, along with clues available from the context.
What is cloze procedure?
200
He coined the term "funds of knowledge", that is the various "resources" learners' bring with them to school.
Who is Luis Moll?
200
Name two programs that support Early Learning in the province of BC.
What is StrongStart BC and Ready, Set, Learn?
200
Learners are given the same set of questions or tasks in the same way and their performance is judged against a standards-based set of criteria.
What is criterion-referenced tests?
200
These series dominated the teaching of reading in North America throughout the 20th century.
What are basal reading series?
300
This instructional procedure helps students to combine new information with old information related to an integrated unit plan.
What is a K-W-L chart?
300
Emergent literacy is a term developed by _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ during the early 1980s to refer to the literacy development of young children.
Who is Mary Clay?
300
Name the two largest school districts in the province of BC.
What is Surrey Schools and Vancouver School Board?
300
Collections of artifacts of students' learning experiences assembled over time.
What is a portfolio?
300
Books published by publishing companies as works of literature.
What are trade books?
400
Perhaps one of the greatest advantages to this strategy is that students learn how to connect a known word and its pattern (e.g., ball) to an unknown word (e.g., tall).
What is onsets and rimes?
400
He coined the term miscue for errors during oral reading.
What is Kenneth Goodman?
400
To register your child in Kindergarten, the parent or legal guardian should bring the following three items:
What is the child's original birth certificate, child's immunization record and proof of residence address?
400
An assessment strategy that involves learners reading aloud a short passage to the educator.
What is a running record?
400
The academic language that students need in order to understand content-area lessons and/or texts. English language learners usually take five to seven years to develop this level of linguistically proficiency.
What is Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency (CALP)?
500
The strategy allows opportunities for constructive conversation, where readers can negotiate meaning with each other and with the text.
What is questioning the author?
500
He announced a major shift in our perceptions of literacy in work stemming from the 1980s when he contrasted what he termed an "autonomous" view of literacy with an "ideological" view.
Who is Brian Street?
500
Who creates the Foundation Skills Assessment (FSA) tests?
Who are BC teachers contracted by the Ministry?
500
Teachers meet with learners individually, review the writing samples, and discuss the writing with the learner.
What is a portfolio conference?
500
Literacy teaching and learning that takes account of all modes within texts of all kinds.