Guided Reading
Comprehension Strategies
Writing
Literacy Assessments
Lesson Planning
100

5-6 students who are on the same reading level.

What is a guided reading small group?

100

A skill where the reader guesses what will happen before reading the text.

What is making a prediction?

100

A child-centered approach based on the thought that students become successful writers when they write frequently, for an extended amount of time.

What is writing workshop?

100

Marie Clay created this assessment to get an idea of student's reading process.

What is a running record?

100

The goals of a lesson plan.

What are the objectives of the lesson?

200

Young readers who read levels A, B, and C are in this stage.

What are emergent learners?

200

Students write a sentence about each part of the story.

What is Beginning-Middle-End (BME)?

200

A short (about 10 minute) session that provides explicit instructions on writing.

What is a minilesson?

200

Originated in Texas to assess early literacy skills, and is now nationally recognized.

What is the Texas Primary Reading Inventory (TPRI) assessment?

200

The culminating part of the lesson plan.

What is the assessment of the lesson? What is the summary of a lesson plan?

300

Selecting a fiction text at an easier level to work with expression and intonation will help students

What is reading fluency?

300

The goal of a teacher who selects one or two unfamiliar words that were defined in the text and then helps students determine the meaning of the words

What us reread for clues?

300

Teachers do this in order to provide individualized writing instruction.

What is conferring?

300

Inventory of information teachers asks students about their personal habits and tastes.

What are the Interest Surveys?

300

Madelyn Hunter 

Danielson 

I do, you do, we do

What are lesson plan templates?

400

Used when conducting a word study activity, images, and pictures are organized.

What is a picture sort?

400

The teacher asks What are you wondering? What questions do you have? What confused you? when. trying to elicit a strategy.

What is asks questions?

400

They help writers notice things about an author's work that is not like anything they might have done before and empower them to try something new.

What are mentor texts?

400

Texas state exam that is criterion referenced.

The STAAR exam.

400

Modifications of a lesson to tailor to diverse students.

What is differentiation?

500

When students complete a written response about what they have read, the teacher supports them. 

What is guided writing?

500

A conversation with a student about their comprehension of a book.

What is a reading conference? 

500

Thirty to forty-five minutes

What is time for independent writing time?

500

English Language learners take this to assess their progress in learning the English language

TELPAS (Texas English Language Proficiency Assessment System).

500

Questions teachers ask when they want students to understand concepts, infer from the information, and make connections.

What are higher-order thinking questions?