Each grade level is responsible for presenting a book and task.
What is Book of the Month?
100
90 minutes
What is the length of the reading block?
100
Six, going from basic to more complex
What is the number of thinking skills in Bloom's Taxonomy?
100
CCSS
What is the abbreviation for Common Core State Standards?
100
A tool to help drive instruction
What is data?
200
This is created to show what you are teaching. It should have the date and standard
What is an Artifact?
200
Heggerty, Making Meaning, Text Talk, ISAT Coach, Discovery, Guided Reading, Basal
What are the required reading components in the reading block?
200
Changed from nouns to verbs
What is the way Bloom's has been revised? Thinking is a verb, not a noun. The terms in Blooms have changed to reflect this.
200
10
What is the number of standards in each Common Core Strand?
200
We were the first school to advocate and implement this testing and data tool. Gives a wide range of information. Done online.
What is Discovery Education?
300
Tracks how many books are read. Kids say this as apart of the Whittier Pledge. Students who achieve this go to a picnic at the end of the year.
What is the 25 book campaign/chart?
300
Very clear, direct instruction. Used to make certain the students understand. An excellent way to teach something new. Teaching is very clear and focused when this is used.
What is explicit teaching?
300
Means of expressing qualitatively different kinds of thinking.
What is the purpose of Blooms?
300
Reading: Literature, Reading: Informational Text, Reading: Foundational Skills, Writing, Speaking and Listening, Language
What are the strands that make up English Language Art?
300
Daily Double
Name the two reading fluency tests administered. One test has 3 passages and a retell used by the primary grades. The other test has 3 reading passages and the Cloze procedure.
What is DIBELS? What is Aims Web?
400
Every room has one of these posted. You should be adding 5 "new things," a week to it.
What is a word wall?
400
Red is completed, yellow is reading response, and white is writing. Remember the students need to write the date and not skip pages, and you need to give feedback!
What are the folder and notebooks requirements?
400
Reading Response Notebook and wall/poster
What are the places Bloom's Taxonomy belongs?
400
50/50
What is the distributional amount of Literary and Informational Text that should be taught?
400
Exceed
What is the achievement level we hope all students will reach?
500
These should also be posted in your room, reflect what you are teaching, and were "rolled out," two years ago.
What is the Common Core State Standards?
500
This can be in a one on one conference or in a small group of 6 students. The studnets should be at the same reading level or working on the same reading strategy. Running Records are used to find the appropriate level. Scholastic, Reading A to Z, or Scott Foresman leveled books can be used. You work with these students while the other students are in centers.
What is guided reading?
500
Benjamin Bloom and Lorin Anderson
Who is the creator and reviser of Bloom's Taxonomy?
500
This was a strategy taught last year on a Tuesday morning. It uses smaller pieces of text. The text should be read at least three times, each with a different purpose. New vocabulary and background knowledge can be explained.
What is Close Reading?
500
An Illinois website that gives us our state report card and ISAT test data and results.