A chance for students to listen as something compelling is read to them.
What is read aloud?
100
This term describes a first attempt at writing something.
What is "draft?"
100
This is the goal of reading.
What is comprehension or constructing meaning?
100
Listening is the essential task in this activity.
What is read-aloud.
100
Keeping the lesson short is a key task of teachers when implementing this activity.
What is a mini-lesson.
200
In this activity, students read on their own.
What is independent reading.
200
Do this to develop your ideas when you aren't actually writing.
What is prewriting?
200
Graphophonic, semantic, and syntactic.
What are the cuing systems?
200
During this activity, students may read a bit of their current independent selection and talk about it with the teacher.
What is conferencing?
200
During this activity, teachers can show how expert readers approach and think about texts.
What is demonstration reading.
300
Sometimes young children engage in these small group activities while the teacher works with others.
What are centers or work stations?
300
This term describes a meeting between two students during which one helps the other to improve a piece of writing.
What is a peer conference?
300
Readers use this when they draw on what they already know in order to make sense of something new.
What is schema?
300
When students do this, they may find a checklist helpful.
What is proofreading.
300
Helping students troubleshoot problems in their writing can be an important part of this activity.
What is a writing conference?
400
When teachers write on the Smart Board or a chart paper while students help.
What is demonstration writing.
400
Do this when you want to improve the way you communicated your message/ideas in what you wrote.
What is revise?
400
When readers predict and then check their predictions by reading more, they may have to go back and fix up what they already read. This the term for that process.
What is revision?
400
These students often work in centers or read independently during guided reading time.
What are the students who are not meeting in a guided reading group?
400
Teachers are wise to do this with minimal interruption, in order to help students learn what written texts sound like and to encourage engagement in texts.
What is read aloud?
500
During this component, a few students meet with the teacher to learn a specific strategy or task in the writing process.
What is guided writing?
500
This term describes the nature of the writing process, which is not linear but, rather, involves moving back and forth between aspects of the process.
What is recursive?
500
When readers see a question mark at the end of a sentence and intuitively expect only certain words at the start to the sentence, they are using this cuing system.
What is the syntactic system?
500
Students might include topics to write about, ideas to explore, possible audiences, free writes, rough drafts, and reflections on process.
What is found in a writers' notebook?
500
Teachers create this space to provide materials for students to use when drafting and publishing.