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Reading
Lang.Arts & Writing
English Learners
Adolescent Literacy
Grab Bag
100
What are the 5 components of reading (as identified by the National Reading Panel in 2000)?
What are phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension?
100
The 6 language arts
What are reading, writing, speaking, listening, viewing, visually representing?
100
A text, diagram or other pictorial device that summarizes, organizes, and illustrates interrelationships among concepts in a text, such as maps, webs, graphs, charts, frames, or clusters. It can support English Learners' understanding.
What is a graphic organizer?
100
The forces that prompt an individual toward a certain action or behavior. It may be internal –— based on physical or emotional need, or external —based on an outside force.
What is motivation?
100
A group of individuals who collaborate to provide leadership and direction to a school's or a district's literacy program
What is a literacy team?
200
Early knowledge that children get as they list to, play with, and look at books (e.g. directionality, spacing, etc.)
What are Concepts about Print?
200
prewriting composing revising editing publishing/sharing
What is the writing process?
200
The behaviors; beliefs; value systems; and ways of living, speaking, and communicating that are characteristic of a particular social or ethnic group and are transmitted from one generation to another
What is culture?
200
The technical or specialized vocabulary or language structures in an academic discipline (chemistry, history, etc.)
What is content area literacy?
200
periodic informal assessment administered to all students that is targeted, brief, and aimed at identifying students who are in need of support to progress in sync with their peers
What is a screening assessment?
300
The relationship between the letters in written words and the sounds in spoken words.
What is phonics?
300
An integrated approach to writing instruction in which a block of time is allocated to the writing process, often incorporating peer collaboration, conferences, and sharing, and resulting in completed written pieces.
What is writer's workshop?
300
Words in different languages related to the same root, e.g. education (English) and educación (Spanish).
What are cognates?
300
The skills to gain and convey meaning through a multitude of systems (i.e. the Internet) through which we read the word and read the world.
What are new literacies?
300
An educational practice in which a teacher provides a great deal of instructional support during the initial stages of learning a new concept or process, then gradually withdraws support as the student becomes more proficient.
What is scaffolding?
400
Prediction, generating questions, determining importance, drawing inferences, and self-monitoring
What are comprehension strategies?
400
Research shows it is best to teach this in the context of students' writing rather than in isolation.
What is grammar?
400
The discourse forms (ways of writing and speaking) in instruction. [_________ language]
What is academic language?
400
This knowledge and skill can be developed through contextual approaches, morphological approaches, cognates, definitional approaches
What is vocabulary?
400
The instruction given to all students in the classroom
What is core instruction?
500
Often defined as the process of thinking about thinking, this refers to the ability of a reader to recognize the degree to which he or she is understanding what he or she reads.
What is metacognition?
500
"Temporary" spellings that young students produce when they use their knowledge of phoneme-grapheme (sound symbol relationships
What is invented spelling?
500
An approach that links instruction to students' lived experiences and cultures
What is culturally responsive or culturally and linguistically responsive instruction?
500
providing different students in the same classroom with different instruction or different avenues to learning based on their needs or interests
What is differentiated instruction?
500
This country leads in gold medals in this year's winter Olympics.
What is Norway?