The ability to read a text accurately, quickly, effortlessly and with expression.
What is fluency?
100
The book we read as our first IRA.
What is Ish?
100
When you read a piece of literature to students while asking comprehension questions and modeling thinking.
What is Interactive Read Aloud?
100
Students are grouped by reading level during this.
What is guided reading?
100
All members of our class memorized one of these for class.
What is a poem?
200
The understanding that the sounds of spoken language work together to make words.
What is phonemic awareness?
200
This was our first book club book. We discussed the bums in the attic.
What is The House on Mango St?
200
An instructional approach that involves a teacher. working with a small group of students who demonstrate similar reading behaviors and can all read similar levels of texts. The text is easy enough for students to read with your skillful support.
What is guided reading?
200
The teacher chooses good quality literature for this.
What is an interactive read aloud?
200
When you look at and present a collection of books one person wrote.
What is an author study?
300
This can be taught directly when students are explicitly taught both individual words and word-learning strategies.
What is vocabulary?
300
A tool that helps teachers identify patterns in student reading behaviors. It is part of a reading assessment.
What is a running record?
300
The careful, sustained interpretation of a brief passage of a text
What is close reading?
300
The teacher shows students how to interact with the literature during this.
What is an interactive read aloud?
300
A detailed personal narrative that shares a significant moment based on a real challenge or conflict experienced by the author, with particular attention to emotions and descriptive details
What is a memoir?
400
The understanding that letters represent sounds in written language.
What is phonics?
400
We created these to share the history of our lives through a literacy lens.
What is a literate life map?
400
Short instruction with a narrow focus that provides instruction in a skill or concept that students will then relate to a larger lesson
What is a mini-lesson?
400
The focus of this is on skills and process.
What is guided reading?
400
Fill in the blank:
I worked this day with
the strength of my will,
__________________
and the warmth of my heart,
that the world may be a better place to dwell
What is "the light of my thoughts"?
500
This is the reason for reading. Strategies for this skill include recognizing story structure, summarizing, and generating questions.
What is comprehension?
500
These are the three cueing systems.
What is meaning, structure, or visual?
500
These can only be answered by referring back to the text.