LIS
Reading Materials/Academic Language Vocabulary
Comprehension/Writing
Assessment/Engagement
Name that Strand
100

The acronym LIS is short for this. 

What is Literacy Instruction Standards

100

An organizational framework, sorted into three levels, that sorts words based upon their frequency of use and complexity. 

What is Tiered Vocabulary? 

100

When a student is able to understand and interpret what is read and what is heard by making sense of information, connecting ideas, and deriving meaning from a text. 

What is comprehension? 

100

How a teacher can gather information about a students' reading, writing, and language use during instruction. 

What is (possible answers) observation, formative assessment. 

100

Intentional opportunities and instructional support for students to access, read, and interpret a variety of types and modes of text.

What is Reading Materials? 

200

This is a main goal of literacy instruction. 

What is to increase the learning of critical content. 

200

A strategy that can be used to explicitly teach Academic Vocabulary. 

What is (Possible Answers) frayer model, Connect 3, Hexagons, Shades of Meaning, Word Maps, Annotating Essential Questions, etc.  

200

A real world individual or group who will engage with or read a student's writing that provides context for the assignment. 

What is an authentic audience? 

200
Two possible outcomes after reviewing assessment information.

What is intervention and enrichment? 

200

Intentional and ongoing instructional opportunities for students to build and connect knowledge to support their understanding of ideas within and across text

What is Comprehension?

300

True or False. Teaching literacy is essential in every classroom. 

What is True. 

300
A benefit for using multi-modal instruction. 

What is appealing to different learning styles, makes content more accessible to a wide range of learners, makes it more engaging, etc. 

300

An instructional method that gives students time to think together and develop problem solving strategies. 

What is (Possible Answers): Problem-based learning, inquiry-based learning, think-pair-share, numbered heads, jigsaw, etc. 

300

A metacognitive strategy in which students reflect on their own learning progress, skills, and understanding. 

What is a self-assessment. 

300

Explicit writing instruction that includes writing processes and meaningful writing opportunities for students to apply and practice strategies

What is Writing? 

400
A tool that can be used to support content literacy

What is a graphic organizer? 

400

Give an example of a multi-modal text? 

What is: article with embedded video, info-graphic (includes images and text), a podcast, a documentary that includes text, etc. 

400
Name the components of the writing process that should be taught to students explicitly (6). 

What are: Researching/planning, drafting, revising, editing, publishing

400

Name two qualities of "good" teacher feedback. 

What is (possible answers) timely, specific, measurable, actionable. 

400

Intentional instructional opportunities for students to learn and use academic language skills, including discipline-specific vocabulary

What is Academic Language and Vocabulary? 

500

The difference between Content Literacy and Disciplinary Literacy. 

What is Content Literacy is generalized skills- Tier 1 and Tier 2 vocabulary fluently (same across all disciplines) 

Disciplinary Literacy is specialized skills- Tier 3 vocabulary (science- read a table/lab results and apply) 

500

The best practice for determining what vocabulary to include as instruction? 

What is preview the text and select Tier 2 and Tier 3 words that will have a high impact on comprehension of the text and overall unit. 

500

Name three strategies that should be taught to all students to improve reading comprehension. 

What is: (Possible answers) making predictions, building background/activate prior knowledge, set reading goals (purpose for reading), visualizing, sketch notes, making inferences, asking questions, annotate, summarize, recognize text features, etc. 
500

Name three key principles of student engagement. 

What is (Possible Answers): autonomy, authenticity, relevance, community, capability

500

Ongoing observation and assessment of students' language and literacy skills to design responsive instruction



What is Observation and Assessment?