This campfire cuisine is sometimes used to help demonstrate the idea of text complexity.
What is a smore?
100
This theory, which revolutionized how we think about reading comprehension, posits that our knowledge is organized into mental structures - kind of like file cabinets!
What is schema theory?
100
This lesson format aims to keep students active throughout the reading process.
What is the Before-During-After (BDA) format?
100
This term is closely related to motivation and refers to how we see ourselves in terms of our personal or academic lives.
What is identity?
100
The thing that research has demonstrated matters most to reading comprehension.
What is background knowledge?
200
Two of the more famous readability formulas
What is Fry and Raygor?
200
This theory suggests that in order to be effective readers (comprehenders), we must be able to effortlessly decode text.
What is the Theory of Automaticity?
200
We teach these words to help students more readily identify text structure.
What are signal words?
200
This concept is closely related to motivation and refers to a student's belief that s/he can do the work or has what it takes to be successful with text.
What is self-efficacy?
200
The two types of vocabularies that we all possess
What are receptive and expressive vocabularies?
300
Quantitative measures of text complexity most commonly attend to these language variables.
What is average number of sentences and average number of syllables or long words.
300
This theory suggests that motivation and interest can create the conditions necessary for sustained attention (and therefore active reading)
What is Motivation Theory?
300
We do this (or help students learn to do this) so that they 1) have a focus (or roadmap) for reading, 2) remain active, and 3) have a means for monitoring their comprehension.
What is setting a purpose?
300
This instructional technique is a good way to arouse curiosity and build interest in a particular text by presenting students with a series of statements that they agree or disagree with.
What is an anticipation guide?
300
This term refers to informal writing activities that students can engage in to further explore ideas, clarify understandings, demonstrate understandings, etc.
What is Writing to Learn?
400
These 2 ingredients of text complexity lie outside of the text itself.
What is the reader and the task?
400
This theory suggests that readers need to be aware of the thinking strategies readers engage in before, during, and after reading
What is Metacognitive Theory?
400
These visual aids can be used in myriad ways to help students anticipate, process, organize and remember, and even study content.
What are graphic organizers?
400
This term is used to refer to a collection of thematically related resources that can be used to support reading engagement by building relevance, background knowledge, key vocabulary, etc.
What is a linked text set?
400
The last name of the third author of our text book?
What is Mraz?
500
A tool we can use to assess students' ability to comprehend a particular text (to see if they have the necessary vocabulary and concept knowledge) where we delete every 5th word in a passage and students fill in the blanks.
What is a cloze?
500
This theory purports that knowledge is viewed, constructed, and filtered through one's social and cultural experiences.
What is Sociocultural Theory?
500
These 4 comprehension strategies are at the heart of Reciprocal Teaching
What are predicting, clarifying, questioning, and summarizing?
500
This term refers to a student-centered approach to teaching where students' unique cultural strengths are identified and nurtured to promote student achievement and a sense of well-being in the classroom and beyond.
What is Culturally Responsive Instruction OR Culturally Relevant Pedagogy?
500
The 5 rates of reading associated with flexible reading
What are surveying, scanning, skimming, study reading, and rereading (aka close reading)