These text factors, including charts and chapter divisions, influence comprehension of nonfiction books.
What are nonfiction features?
100
a book that includes facts on various topics
What is an informational book?
100
Tompkins states that there are four ways to organize for instruction: basal programs, literature focus units, reading and writing workshop, and _______________
What is literature circles?
200
The most authentic type of reading. It is a time for students to select their own books, use their reading strategies, and have large blocks of time to accomplish this.
What is independent reading?
200
one of the six types of writing in which students write factual information, such as an autobiography, or how-to instructions
What is expository writing?
200
Examples of this include comparison and contrast, sequence, cause and effect, and description.
What is text structure in nonfiction books?
200
a story that includes make-believe characters
What is fantasy?
200
Which organizational way is teacher centered?
What is basal reading programs?
300
When teachers work with small groups of students who are reading at the same instructional level.
What is guided reading?
300
in this stage of writing, writers are focused on revisiting the content of the essay, and then correcting any spelling or grammar mistakes.
What is the revision and editing stage?
300
A factor that influences comprehension when the reader is not able to read at a conversation like pace.
What is fluency?
300
the story of a person's life, generally told in a chronological sequence
What is a biography?
300
This student centered way of teaching reading provides ample time for students to work independently on both their reading and writing.
What is the reading and writing workshop?
400
This is an idea of what students would do during the exploring stage of reading
What is reread the text or examine the writer's craft in the text.
400
When writers choose their words to create a rhythmic flow, this writing trait helps develop the "personality"
What is voice?
400
This term is defined as the reader's knowledge of words.
What is vocabulary?
400
This folktale was shared in class, and was about a cockroach trying to find her suitor.
What is Martina, the Beautiful Cockroach by Carmen Agra Deedy?
400
What is the role of the teacher during literature circles?
What is the facilitator?
500
Louise Rosenblatt's Transactional Theory of Reader Response is recognized when students do this after reading a selection.
What is engage in conversations? What is write?
500
A class book created by students that resemble the text structure of a book read by the teacher in class.
What is a story innovation?
500
This text structure is a variation of the question and answer format. Cue words include dilemma is, puzzle is, and solved.
What is problem and solution text structure?
500
The Giver, Hunger Games, and Ender's Game are examples of this genre.
What is science fiction?
500
Teachers provide mini lessons in this organizational pattern for students to instruct them on skills they need based on ongoing assessment.