Competency 9: Reading, Inquiry and Research Flashcards
Content-Area Texts
textbooks & readers that pertain to a specific subject, such as science.
Narrative Texts
texts that are stories of a variety of types, that allow readers to gain insight from the characters’ experiences.
Expository Texts
Texts that feature factual information.
Discovery Learning
Learning that occurs when students must formulate what they want to know and discover the information through research; helps students attain the highest level of Bloom’s Taxonomy of Higher Order Thinking Skills.
Inquiry-Based Learning
Learning that involves generating questions, and using research to find answers to the questions.
Student Inquiry
Simply questions. Occur when students form questions about academic concepts and are driven to find answers to their questions. Inquiry drives the learning.
Higher Order Thinking Skills
Being able to think and process information beyond basic concept memory and recall, to be able to evaluate and utilize information learned.
Bloom’s Taxonomy
Classification of higher-order thinking skills summarized by Benjamin Bloom in 1956. Considered to be a foundational understanding for teachers. Students must be able to use what they know, to expand upon it, and to branch out into new ideas.
Inquiry-Based Learning
Style of teaching in which children drive the learning process based on questions that they generate. Teachers become coaches, guides, and facilitators who help learners arrive at the important questions.
Visual Information
The use of visual media resources including still images such as photographs, charts, tables, and graphs, videos, digital stories, data visualization.
Study Skills
The strategies and techniques to apply to learning in order to have success in school.
Student Achievement
The difference in performance as the student grows in the area that is emphasized.
Inquiry Skills
The strategies to locate, gather, analyze, critique and apply information as the student develops understanding.
TEKS
Texas Essential Knowledge & Skills
Grade Level Expectations
What a student should know and be able to do to achieve the benchmark for that grade level
