This teaching strategy is a good way to test prior knowledge and determine what students want to know and what they've learned at the end of instruction.
What is KWL
100
Students and teachers collaborate to put together a representation of student work to go into a _________.
What is a Portfolio
100
Showing how facts and events happen or come into being as a result of other facts and events.
What is Cause and Effect
100
Refers to the ability to use reading, writing, talking, viewing and listening to learn subject matter in a given content.
What is Content Literacy
100
Each student becomes an expert on a subtopic and is responsible for teaching the other members of the class that subtopic or theme.
What is Jigsawing
200
A strategy used before reading, during instruction and after reading as known as ______.
What is BDA
200
These provide students with detailed, consistent guidelines about the expectations of their assignments or projects.
What is a Rubric
200
Pointing out a likeness and/or difference among facts, people events and concepts.
What is Compare and Contrast
200
This literacy takes place in adolescents is critical to preparing them for life out of school.
What is Adolescent Literacy
200
Each member of a group reads a different text on the same topic and then shares what he/she learned while other group members listen and point out similarities and differences based on their own readings.
What are Group Retellings
300
This strategy shows students the relationship that exist among types of questions asked, the text/answers and the reader's prior knowledge.
What is QAR
300
This strategy is guided by the teacher and allows students to explore concepts visually with images in mind.
What is Guided Imagery
300
Putting together facts or events in order by date, time or event.
What is a sequence
300
An online journal that is often a personal account of one's life experience.
What is a Blog
300
Each group has one student called a ____________ who facilitates and organizes the discussion.
What is a Leader
400
A strategy that involves writing activities that help the students learn by connecting prior knowledge to new information.
What is WTL
400
This type of assessment uses teacher observation as the major tool; student behavior is observed, feedback is given and is useful during parent teacher conferences.
What is Authentic Assessment
400
Method by which you delete words from a text passage and then evaluate student's ability to accurately supply the deleted words.
What is a Cloze Procedure
400
They help teachers plan for instruction, develop manageable routines, assist in delivering instruction in the area of reading and provide teachers with ongoing professional development; a team leader.
What is a Literacy Coach
400
The teachers role during a reflective discussion.
What is a Participant
500
This comprehension strategy involves questioning the author and shows students how to read texts as if the author were there to be challenged.
What is QtA
500
A series of statements to which students must respond individually before reading the text that get the students excited and interested in the subject about to be taught.
What is an Anticipation Guide
500
This type of text book contains writing that may be confusing or lack clear organization.
What is an Inconsiderate Text
500
Making connections between the content taught and the cultures of our students is know as this type of teaching.
What is Culturally Responsive Teaching
500
Fostering collaboration, developing student self-esteem and encouraging the development of positive group relationships to enhance academic achievement are goals of this strategy.