Listening, Talking, Reading, Writing, Viewing, and Visually Representing
What are the six language arts?
100
The most important language arts because we use it the most.
What is listening?
100
This is the most important feature of small group conversations.
What is promoting thinking?
100
The type of language that children need to understand and use for academic success.
What is Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency (CALP)?
100
Students spend 30 to 60 minutes reading books independently and participate in weekly conferences with the teacher.
What is Reading and Responding?
200
One of the six language arts that are often neglected because teachers assume that students already know how to do it.
What is listening
200
This is the most crucial part of listening.
What is comprehending?
200
These are the two common types of talk in classrooms today.
What are asking and answering questons?
200
The process of selecting a book, previewing the book, introducing the book, reading the book interactively, and involving the students in after-reading activities.
What is an interactive read aloud?
200
Students spend 30 to 45 minutes using the writing process to draft and refine their writing. Many times they compile their final copies to make books or publish their writing in other ways.
What is the Writing Workshop?
300
As students participate in this activity, they are engaged in reading, responding, creating projects, and sharing.
What are literature circles?
300
Receiving, attending, and assigning meaning.
What is the listening process?
300
The teacher asks a qestion, the student answers the question, and the teacher responds to the student's answer.
What is Initiate-Response-Feedbck (IRF)?
300
The process by which students have multiple options for making sense of ideas and expressing what they learn. Instruction is individualized according to the learning needs of the student.
What is differentiated instruction?
300
Students create tools such as clusters, maps, time lines, venn diagramsto organize information and represent relationships about the topic they are discussing.
What are Visua Representations?
400
As students are engaged in this best practice, they are reading, responding, and creating projects. In addition, the teacher teaches mini lessons.
What are literature focus units?
400
The type of listening that is used to distinguish sounds and develop sensitivity to nonverbal communication.
What is discriminative listening?
400
The process teachers use to help students to make connections between oral and written questions.
What are Question-Answer-Relationships?
400
Comprehension skills, print skills, study skills, language skills, and reference skills
What are the 5 categories of language arts skills?
400
The teacher explains that when she listens to a story read aloud she makes pictures in her mnd that go long with the story. Through this process, the following steps are necessary:1. Close your eyes 2. Draw a picture of a scene or character in your mind 3. Listen for details and add them to your picture 4. Add colors to your mind picture.
What is Visualizig?
500
Its overall purpose if for students to develop communicatice competence, the ability to use language appropriately in a variety of social contexts.
What is the goal of language arts instruction?
500
When one listens to stories for enjoyment as pieces of literature are read aloud.
What is aesthetic listening?
500
The type of language used for instruction.
What is academic language?
500
To deepen their comprehension, students talk about stories they are reading in literature focus units and literature circles. What are these discussions called?
What are grand conversations?
500
A strategy used to help you remember what you are listening to. Cornel Notes is an example of this.