Language Arts & Reading. Comptency 1 Flashcards
What are portfolios ?
Working and / or growth portfolios can be used to collect work samples over time to gain true insight into how the students skills have progressed
How can you find out a students intreset and attitude towards reading ?
Surveys
How can retelling rubrics be used in a classroom?
They help identify what important literacy elements incorporating into their retelling.
____ and ____ routine are key components of high quality instruction for young students.
Repetition & routine
There are ___ major components of reading ?
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Billy is new to your class. How can you successfully asses his attitude and interest towards reading ?
Surveys
What type of assessment is used to collect work samples over time to gain true insight into how the students skills have progressed ?
Portfolios
Mr. Stribling is doing a read aloud in class. Throughout the story he asks the students questions about print conventions , book structure , letter identification , word boundaries , book cover , and so on. What is he assessing his students on ?
Concepts of print
Its a new school year and its time to asses the students. You are needing to assess what words students know. This assessment is used as a screening progress monitoring tool. What assessment is this ?
Check lists.
Billy is working on improving his literary elements. He is working I. Incorporating it into retelling information. What type if assessment can you use to assess billy while retelling information.
Rubric
What are the different components of emergent literacy ?
Oral language development , phonics , phonological awareness , alphabet knowledge , concepts of print and voice to print matching
Mrs.Orum is doing a read aloud in class. While she is reading , she is pointing to each word while she reads out loud. What technique is she doing ?
Voice to print matching. This technique is often used with beginning readers in the primary grades.
What are different ways to enhance alphabet knowledge ?
Alphabet knowledge , magnetic letters , and the use of enviormental print
_____ lessons teach readers to associate the letters of the alphabet with their sound values
Phonics
Mr. Bailey teaches Kindergarten. He is helping Lisa increase her alphabet knowledge. Which option should she have her do ?
- Use magnetic letters to help form words.
- Look at the different words on the board and write them down.
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_____ and _____ settings can prevent difficulties with emergent literacy skills.
Guided reading & small groups
What is phonemic awareness ?
The ability to head and manipulate the sounds of spoken language.
what is phonics ?
The understanding of the relationships between the written letters of the alphabet and the sounds of spoken langauge. This knowledge allows the reader to “ decode “ words by translating the letters into speech sounds.
T or F : Oral laanguage skills can be enhanced through songs , echo reading , and story retelling.
True
Oral language development cab be enhanced through class and small group discussion. True or false
True
____ is a literacy genre that is pleasant to the ear and contains short text that aids phonological awareness skills in young learners.
Poetry
What are “ right there “ questions ?
These are LITERAL questions in which the answer is in the text itself.
Read this short excerpt from a story below ….
I woke up this morning. Then I went to work. Later I went to work. I got off at 12:30AM.
what time did this character get off work?
A 3:00
B 12:30AM
C 6 ?
what type of question is this also?
Right there. Text explicit. Its literal because the answer is right there in the text.
What is a think and search question?
The answer is implicit in the text, but the student must synthesize, infer or summarize to find the answer.
What are reader and author questions?
The reader needs to generate the answer by combining his or her own experiences with what the text states, that is presented by the author.
Students can use ______ technique to discuss what they already know about a topic with partners.
Think Pair Share
Making an inference is often referred to as “ _________” or deriving meaning from the implied or underlying theme/point of the text.
Reading between the lines
Thinking about the definition of poetry, what is something all different versions of poetry has in common?
short lines
Oral language can be enhanced through class and small group discussions. True or False?
True
Ms.Carver is assessing her students over the first nine weeks. She wants to track each of her students growth so she can compare and contrast how they were in the begging to the end of the nine weeks. Which of the following assessments should Ms.Carver conduct?
a. Create a Portfolio for each student
b. use rubrics for each students assignments
A.Create a Portfolio for each student
Mr.Row was conducting a read aloud with his 1st grade class.Essentially as he was reading aloud he was matching his voice to the print. He would point to a word and say it aloud. What type of emergent literacy skills was he trying to enhance for his kids?
A.Oral Language development
B.Voice to print matching
c.Concepts of print
B.Voice to print matching
_________ is the concept of print that refers to the left to right and top to bottom progression of text on the printed page.
Directionality
___________ is a literacy genre that is pleasant to the ear and contains short text that aids phonological awareness.
Poetry
Oral language skills can be enhanced through songs,echo reading, and story retellings.
True
Phonics is ?
understanding of the relationships between the written letters of the alphabet and the sounds of spoken language.
Fluency is ?
the ability to read at an appropriate rate,accurately, and with prosody(proper expression)
To become fluent, students must have a strong foundation in _______________ and must __________.
word recognition
spend time reading.
Fluent readers focus on _____ and _________, read w/ expression and phrasing, decode quickly, and self correct when their reading does not make sense.
comprehension
make connections
Ms.Jackson had her students read the story “ My first day of school”. After the students read the story, she wanted the students to summarize the story based on their own experiences with what the text states,that is, the knowledge presented by the author. What type of question is Ms.Jackson asking her students?
A. Right there
B. Think and Search
C. Reader and Author
D.On my own
C. Reader and Author
____ and _______ are text implicit or experience based questions.
Reader and author
“On my own” questions
An inference often includes ______ what is already known about a topic to he new info being presented.
merging
What kind of technique can students use to discuss what they already know about a topic with partners?
Think-Pair- Share
Teachers can use _, like K-W-L charts, to elicit what students know about a topic.
graphic organizers.
What is a double journal entry ?
The purpose of double-entry journal (DEJ) is to give you an opportunity to express your thoughts and become more involved with the material you encounter. You can do Double-entry Journals for both articles and listenings that are assigned in class
Text features usually support the body of the text and help to ____ and _______ the information being presented.
synthesize and summarize
Text feature “________” can be performed to locate the text features present in a particular text. .
scavenger hunts
____________ is a vital part of understanding content area reading text because knowing the meaning of specific words is paramount to comprehension.
Vocabulary
Graphophonemic is a phase of words recognition in elementary age students that refers to the letter- sound relationship. True or False?
True!
There are ______ main genres of children s literature.
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What is a haiku ?
three lines w/ 5-7-5 syllables
what is a limerick?
five-line humorous poem with aabba rhyme scheme.
What is a ode ?
a lyerical and expressive poem
what is a diamante?
seven lines;form diamond shape
what is a clerihew?
humorous verse consisting of two rhyming couplets , one of which includes a persons name
What is an alliteration?
Two or more words or syllables,near each other, with the same beginning consonant.
“She sells sea-shells down by the sea-shore” or “Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers”.is an example of what kind of literacy device ?
Alliteration
What is a hyperbole?
An exaggeration used to emphasize a point
Im so hungry I could eat a horse. This is an example of what type of literacy device ?
Hyperbole
What is literary language?
A dialect of language used in literacy writing
