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10 Characteristics related to Text Difficulty
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This quick tool can be used to record a student's accuracy in reading a text and requires nothing but a piece of paper, a writing utensil, and a trained teacher. 
What is a running record?
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In this part of a guided reading lesson, students read the entire text either softly or silently.
What is reading/reading the text?
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This is a teacher's dream to be able to "shop for books" in one of these...
What is a book room? :)
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This quick assessment of reading requires a piece of paper, a reading child, a writing utensil and a trained teacher.  It is used to assess word accuracy and help a teacher understand a child's control/understanding of meaning, structure (syntax), and visual information when reading text. 
What is a Running Record?
100
This part of a book is either the photographs or art in fiction texts; the graphic features of informational texts.
What are illustrations?
200
These were the authors of the article: Guided Reading: The Romance and the Reality. 
Who are Fountas and Pinnell?
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In this part of the lesson, the teacher provides explicit teaching to help students become flexible and efficient in solving words.
What is word work?
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Accurate word reading is not the only goal, these are also part of being proficient.
What are independent self-monitoring and using a variety of sources of information?
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These are the last two systems that represent how a proficient reader compares, contrasts and relates to the language and literary devices used within text.
What are analyzes and critiques?
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This text characteristic includes the number of pages, print font, length, punctuation, and variety of readers' tools.
What are book and print features?
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This type of reading provides small-group instruction to allow for differentiation and caters to individual needs/strengths.
What is guided reading?
300
This is an optional part of a guided reading lesson, but teachers may allow students to extend their understanding of the text through writing and/or drawing pictures.
What is extending understanding?
300
Fountas and Pinnell have a text level one of these that spans A-Z.
What is a text gradient?
300
In addition to this, inferring, synthesizing and making connections are all part of "thinking beyond the text".
What is predicting?
300
This is the way that text is organized.
What is a text structure?
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There is an _____________ difference between implementing parts of a guided reading lesson and using guided reading to bring readers from where they are to as far as the teaching can take them.


(important, unimportant, effective)

What is important?
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This is typically the first part of a successful guided reading lesson.
What is the selection of a text?
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These are two elements of being an efficient reader but are assessed in different ways.
What are comprehension and fluency?
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These are the first six systems that are categorized as "Thinking within the text".
What are solving words, monitoring and correcting, searching for and using information, summarizing information to help remember, adjusting reading, and sustaining fluency?
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These include big ideas in the text, the overall purpose, and messages being conveyed. 
What are themes and ideas?
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If a book is too difficult, this is the result of a child's processing.
It is not proficient.
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A teacher makes these throughout the lesson by explicitly pointing things out in a text, directed toward expanding a system of strategic action.
What is a teaching point?
500
Teachers need these five elements to fully implement a successful guided reading experience in classrooms.
What are schedules, effective management, a collection of leveled books, an assessment system and professional development?
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Words per minute is one way to measure fluency, but in our work, we emphasize these elements far more than rate.
What are pausing, phrasing, word stress, and intonation?
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This is the type or kind of fiction or nonfiction text and also has to do with the particular form something is written in.
What is a genre and/or a form?