LIS
The acronym LIS is short for this.
What is Literacy Instruction Standards
An organizational framework, sorted into three levels, that sorts words based upon their frequency of use and complexity.
What is Tiered Vocabulary?
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?
How a teacher can gather information about a students' reading, writing, and language use during instruction.
What is (possible answers) observation, formative assessment.
Intentional opportunities and instructional support for students to access, read, and interpret a variety of types and modes of text.
What is Reading Materials?
This is a main goal of literacy instruction.
What is to increase the learning of critical content.
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.
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?
What is intervention and enrichment?
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?
True or False. Teaching literacy is essential in every classroom.
What is True.
What is appealing to different learning styles, makes content more accessible to a wide range of learners, makes it more engaging, etc.
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.
A metacognitive strategy in which students reflect on their own learning progress, skills, and understanding.
What is a self-assessment.
Explicit writing instruction that includes writing processes and meaningful writing opportunities for students to apply and practice strategies
What is Writing?
What is a graphic organizer?
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.
What are: Researching/planning, drafting, revising, editing, publishing
Name two qualities of "good" teacher feedback.
What is (possible answers) timely, specific, measurable, actionable.
Intentional instructional opportunities for students to learn and use academic language skills, including discipline-specific vocabulary
What is Academic Language and Vocabulary?
The difference between Content Literacy and Disciplinary Literacy.
Disciplinary Literacy is specialized skills- Tier 3 vocabulary (science- read a table/lab results and apply)
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.
Name three strategies that should be taught to all students to improve reading comprehension.
Name three key principles of student engagement.
What is (Possible Answers): autonomy, authenticity, relevance, community, capability
Ongoing observation and assessment of students' language and literacy skills to design responsive instruction
What is Observation and Assessment?