When a student has the ease and flow of reading words without anxieties or diffculties.
What is automaticity or fluency?
100
Before reading a passage the teacher does this to introduce the story and help students focus on comprehension and enjoyment. Most often it is used to gain attention, provide focus, and clear misunderstanding of what the story will be about.
What is pre-reading?
100
When the vowel of a syllable is short, the syllable will be closed off by one or more consonants, e.g. com-mon, but-ter,back, doll, stuff, mess.
What is Closed Syllables.
100
In K-1st students learn all their numbers through words and symbols, counting and one-to-one correspondence. In 2nd grade they start learning these about numbers.
What is adding, subtracting, place values and counting with tens up to 100's?
100
Engaging student thinking,connecting where they are at, and making mathematics problematic.
What is Nature of the Task?
200
Students do this in reading a passage because they try to make meaning out of the sentence.
What is insertion?
200
A teacher may ask questions to clarify misunderstanding or to help the student attempt words and phrases he or she is unfamiliar with.
What is prompting?
200
Often known as "magic e" syllable patterns, this contains long vowels spelled with a single letter, followed by a single consonant and a silent "e." e.g. wake, make, yore, rude, hare.
What is Vowel Consonant "e" ? or VCE
200
A student in second or third grade must almost memorize this to ensure automatic recall when doing math problems using computations.
What is the Multiplication Table?
200
To select tasks with goals in mind, sharing essential information with stduents, and establishing classroom culture for all to learn.
What is the teacher's role?
300
When a student has difficulty decoding the first sounds of a word teachers say they lack this.
What is word attack skills?
300
After the reading groups, the teacher helps students retain words and phrases they learned through posting vocabularies or othe rinformation on this wall.
What is a word wall?
300
It will end with a long vowel sound spelled with one vowel letter. There will be no consonant to close and protect the vowel. e.g. to-tal, ri-val, bi-ble, mo-tor. Or, me, she, he and no.
What is OPEN Syllables?
300
Students can learn these as early as pre-k by learning the four operations using words such as take away, plus, sum, repeated addition and symbols for undestanding equalities like 4 + this equals 35.
What are algebraic equations?
300
That ideas and methods re valued, mistakes are a learning thing for everyone, and correctness resides in mathematical argument.
What is social culture of the classroom?
400
Students are often unfamiliar with certain words or phrases in a passage and cannot make meaning for comprehension.
What are context cues?
400
This is the ideal number for grouping students for guided reading activities.
What is 4-6 students ina group?
400
Pattern of vowels together in pairs such as boil, hair, boat, thief, and bear that have long vowel sounds usually of the first vowel in the pair.
What is VOWEL Teams?
400
It is counting using 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 etc.
What is base 10?
400
Essential tools and resources used with a purpose, meaning constructed through the use of familiar mathematical tools that are used to record, communicate and think in the classroom.
What are mathematical tools that are available?
500
When students are unable to recall certain words and phrases of a passage they just read teachers say they have this problem.
What is short term memory retention?
500
These are the number of minutes that teachers should provide for guided reading in almost all instances.
What is 15-20 minutes?
500
Words such as per-form, ar-dor, mir-ror, fur-thur.
What is VOWEL - R Syllables?
500
Merging reading and uunderstanding numbers are often inrtoduced to students in this format.
What are number or word problems?
500
Tasks that are essentially accessible to all students, every student is heard and every student contributes.
What is The Extent to which all students can participate fully?