ACRONYMS
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
TEACHING STRATEGIES
MATH
WRITING AND GRAMMAR
100
STPT
What is Structured Teacher Planning Time?
100
Big Dan and Little Anne
What is "Where the Red Fern Grows"?
100
A Venn diagram and story web are examples of these.
What are graphic organizers?
100
1+2=3, 3-1=2, 3-2=1, we teach these as.....
What are fact families?
100
These parts of speech name things in our environment.
What are nouns?
200
PLC
What is Professional Learning Community?
200
Takes place on what is now known as St. Nicolas Island about 70 miles east of Catalina.
What is "Island of the Blue Dolphins"?
200
His strategies include giving feedback, a systematic way of teaching vocabulary, and the use of the term "home practice" instead of homework.
Who is Marzano?
200
Name the property: a+ (b+c) = (a+b) = c
What is Associative Property of Addition?
200
Up, down, over, under and around are examples of these.
What are prepositions?
300
API
What is Academic Performance Index?
300
The Grandparents of this story never leave their bed.
What is "Charlie and the Chocolate Family"?
300
The use of these before students leave your classroom provide a means of assessing their knowledge.
What are "exit" cards?
300
This angle is measured at 90 degrees.
What is a right angle?
300
She ran like a cheetah is an example of this literary device.
What is a simile?
400
AMAO
What is Annual Measurable Achievement Objectives?
400
The characters in this story have "stars on thars".
What is "The Sneeches"?
400
Using these tangible examples during a lesson is not only good for ELD students, but for all students.
What are realia.
400
Its numerical value is 3.14159265
What is pi?
400
The use of words that intimate sounds in the following example: Crack! Crack! The fire crackles under the stars. Sizzle! Sizzle! The water sizzles above the fire. Crunch! Crunch!
What are onomatopoeias?
500
LEA
What is Local Education Agency?
500
A clever spider "hams" it up in this classic.
What is "Charlotte's Web"?
500
"My Dear Aunt Sally" is a form of this technique that is helpful for students to remember and recall information.
What are mnemonic devices?
500
a2 + b2 = c2
What is Pythagorean Theorem?
500
The writing device that interjects a descriptor between the subject and the predicate of a sentence. For example: Los Amigos, the local elementary school, has the best staff in Rancho Cucamonga.
What is an appositive?