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A common thread or unifying feature of a project is known as this.
What is a repetend?
100
A set of books sharing a theme or a set of books written by the same author.
What is a text set?
100
The strongest reason Ms. Bartholomew, a new 1st grade teacher, supports the idea to use a basal reading program in her classroom is for this main reason.
What is the idea that a basal program serves as a well needed guidance for novice teachers?
100
When she reached the midpoint of a unit on the Great Depression, teacher Jadenna Nuntananusit asked her students to spend 10 minutes writing about the topic.
What is a quick-write?
100
This type of diagram provides students with an organized visual representation of information from texts.
What is a graphic organizer?
200
Fourth grade teacher, Kelli Crawford, is compiling a text set for her students to use during a thematic unit. As she selects books, she has correctly decided to select books written in these levels.
What is a range of levels to fit needs of all students?
200
As she read the novel, Double Dutch, Hanna wrote her favorite lines on sticky-notes. She then arranged the lines to create this type of poem.
What is a Found Poem?
200
Tom kept a journal on his desk as he read a textbook chapter about railroads. He applied a strategy that required him to divide each page of his journal into two columns and wrote questions in one column and answers to the questions in the opposite column.
What is a double-entry journal?
200
The organization of informational books.
What is called expository text structures?
200
Alyssa was furious when the school district instituted a new dress code. Her mother encouraged her to write a composition from her own viewpoint that might convince the school board to change the policy. She used this type of writing.
What is a persuasive essay? (expository writing)
300
When they completed the unit on the solar system, Ms. Gamache's fourth graders made a video, gave a PowerPoint presentation, and wrote a poem about the planets. These students were completing this type of project.
What is a multi-genre project?
300
Sixth grade teacher, Mrs. Langford, noticed that her students read and enjoyed several books in the Dear America series, a group of simulated journals describing the lives of fictional children in several historical periods. Mrs. Langford encouraged the students to use those books as models and then write their own simulated journals.
What are mentor text(s)?
300
Before reading a chapter in their textbooks, Mrs. Whannell utilized this strategy by asking her students to use two or more new vocabulary words to compose sentences that might be in the textbook chapter.
What is the strategy Possible Sentences? (probable passages)
300
A teacher would like to use the novel, The Secret School, as part of a unit on early American educational practices. Since many students are unable to read the book independently, this strategy would allow ALL students an opportunity to participate.
What is an interactive read-aloud?
300
The color of Dorothy's shoes in Frank L. Baum's, The Wizard of Oz.
What is the color silver?
400
Assessment at the end of a thematic unit should emphasize this.
What is the children's learning of the big ideas?
400
All of the students in Ms. Lyons' class are reading the novel, Crash, by Jerry Spinelli. They have grand conversations about each chapter, respond in reading logs and add important words from the chapter to the class word wall. These students are participating in this.
What is a literature focus unit?
400
Current research has found that current basal reading programs differ from those of the past because the newer programs include this.
What are more authentic literature selections?
400
Because she is required to use a basal reading program for classroom instruction, sixth grade teacher Lindsey Richardson fears that her students will not develop an appreciation of great literature. To solve this dilemma, she supplements the basal with these.
What are trade books?
400
The biggest known skull of this reptile is longer than a racehorse's body.
What is a dinosaur?
500
After reading many books and magazine articles about tennis star Serena Williams, fourth grade student Katherine pretended that she was Serena Williams and she began writing journal entries using the viewpoint of the famous athlete, thus applying the writing example of what form?
What is a simulated journal?
500
Language arts teacher Marissa Hull helps her students read and analyze the nutritional information printed on cereal boxes. This reading material represents the genre.
What is the functional genre?
500
This technique that Ms. Druktenis taught her students to be consciously aware of whether they are likely to find the answer to a question "right there" on the page, between the lines, or beyond the information provided in the text is called this.
What is Question-Answer-Relationships (QAR)
500
Fifth grade teacher Mrs. Hogg is required to use a basal reading program. Two students in her class are unable to read the selections independently. To help the students who struggle, Mrs. Hogg allows them to listen to this before asking them to read independently.
What is an audiotape of the selection?
500
This book series tops the Young Adult Series of 2011 chart.
What is The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins?