Both of these processes, which are rooted in language, share common cognitive and sociocultural characteristics.
What are reading and writing?
100
The strategy used before reading that has students think about what they know about a topic, what they want to know, and what they want to learn.
What is the KWL strategy?
100
A strategy that has students activate their prior knowledge of words.
What is word exploration, brainstorming, list-group-label, or word sorts?
100
The type of text structure that are any organizational aids used in a book, such as the glossary, appendixes, preface.
What are external text structures?
100
These should be used to compliment textbooks in the classroom.
What are trade books?
200
A writing to learn strategy that has students fill in a poetic template using key words from a topic.
What are biopoems?
200
The strategy to help students to understand that questions can be "right there," "think and search," "on your own," or "author and you."
What are question-answer relationships?
200
A strategy that helps students define words?
What is vocabulary self-collection strategy (VSS), Word Maps, Semantic Feature Analysis, Concept Circles, or Magic Squares?
200
Visual displays that help learners comprehend and retain textually important information.
What are graphic organizers?
200
Discussion director, literacy luminator, illustrator, and creative connector
What are jobs held by students in literature circles?
300
A type of writing that encourages students to consider role, audience, form, and topic.
What is RAFT writing?
300
A strategy used during reading that has students work in pairs to brainstorm and discuss a topic.
What is think-pair-share?
300
Wide reading, teaching individual words, teaching word components, and fostering word consciousness.
What are the best ways for students to acquire vocabulary?
300
Developed by Hayes in 1989, this strategy helps students summarize texts.
What is GRASP strategy?
300
Similiar to a literature circle in that it involves small-group discussions of three to six students, however they involve students talking about a particular concept rather than a piece of literature.
What is an idea circle?
400
The type of academic journal has students write from the perspective of a book character
What are (historical) character journals?
400
The theorist who developed the zone of proximal development (ZPD).
Who is Lev Vygotsky?
400
50,000
What is number of words students generally acquire by the end of high school?
400
Can be a summary, a question, or a critical note which is a reaction to the author's thesis.
What are text annotations?
400
Authority, Accuracy, Appropriateness, Literary artistry, and Attractiveness.
What are the "five A's" used to evaluate nonfiction trade books for the classroom?
500
position papers, progress reports, newspaper or journal articles
What are academic writing forms essential in different disciplines?
500
A strategy used when modeling explicit instruction that provides students with an opportunity to develop images in their heads.
What is a think aloud strategy?
500
A strategy that has students question the content in a text.
What is Questioning the Author (QtA)?
500
Understanding how to read nonlinear hyperlinks, multiple media texts, and interative texts
What are the challenges to reading web based texts?
500
A researcher known for his extensive work with literature circles and literature circle jobs.