principles to becoming an effective literacy teacher

Question 1

effective teachers understand how students learn

Answer 1

principle 1

Question 2

(behaviorism) teachers provide direct instruction, and motivate students and control their behavior, students are passive learners

Answer 2

teacher-centered orientation

Question 3

(constructivism) students are actively engaged, relate new info to old info

Answer 3

student-centered orientation

Question 4

thought and language are related, zone of proximal development, scaffold instruction,

Answer 4

sociolinguistics

Question 5

Reading and writing are social activities
that reflect the community and culture

Answer 5

sociocultural theory

Question 6

Learning as you do; becoming an
apprentice

Answer 6

situated learning theory

Question 7

Language is a means for social action and
students become agents for social change.

Answer 7

critical literacy

Question 8

the approach to cognitive development studies that aims to explain how information is encoded into memory

Answer 8

information processing theory

Question 9

reading and writing

Answer 9

interactive models

Question 10

Comprehension is seen as an interpretation of the interaction between the reader and the
text.

Answer 10

transactive theory

Question 11

Goals that direct thinking such as
visualizing, organizing, and revising as well as metacognitive
strategies such as monitoring and revising (fix-up strategies).

Answer 11

strategic behavior

Question 12

Effective Teachers Support
Students’ Use of the Cueing Systems

Answer 12

principle 2

Question 13

phonological, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic

Answer 13

4 cueing systems

Question 14

sound

Answer 14

phonological

Question 15

structure

Answer 15

syntactic

Question 16

meaning

Answer 16

semantic

Question 17

social/cultural use

Answer 17

pragmatic

Question 18

the smallest unit of sound

Answer 18

phoneme

Question 19

written representation of a phoneme using one or more letters

Answer 19

grapheme

Question 20

how many sounds make up the english sound system

Answer 20

44

Question 21

the structure or grammar of a sentence

Answer 21

syntax

Question 22

smallest meaningful unit of language

Answer 22

morpheme

Question 23

a morpheme that can stand alone

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free morpheme

Question 24

a morpheme that must be attached to a free morpheme

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bound morpheme

Question 25

effective teachers create a community of learners

Answer 25

principle 3

Question 26

Effective Teachers Adopt a
Balanced Approach to Instruction

Answer 26

principle 4

Question 27

effective teachers address standards

Answer 27

principle 5

Question 28

effective teachers scaffold students reading and writing

Answer 28

principle 6

Question 29

modeled, shared, interactive, guided, independend

Answer 29

levels of scaffolding

Question 30

Effective Teachers Organize
for Instruction

Answer 30

principle 7

Question 31

Effective Teachers
Differentiate Instruction

Answer 31

principle 8

Question 32

Differentiating the Content
Differentiating the Process Differentiating the Product

Answer 32

3 ways to differentiate instruction

Question 33

Effective Teachers Link
Instruction and Assessment

Answer 33

principle 9