Reading Applications Flashcards
Close Reading
a way to teach in which students read and reread a book carefully and on purpose
Text Frame
Teachers can put questions in text frames all over a reading to get students to think about how important ideas, concepts, and events in the text relate to each other.
A science teacher includes a compare/contrast text frame with questions about the similarities and differences between animal and plant cells.
Reciprocal Teaching
a dialog between teachers and students regarding segments of text; there are four parts: summarizing, question generating, clarifying, and predicting
Narrative Text
Fictional stories, plays, poems. Usually contains some element of plot or conflict.
Peter Pan, Romeo and Juliet
Active Reading
actively engaging with a text while reading
Qualitative Measures of Texts
Things about a book that only a reader can judge
meaning or purpose, structure, language, conventionality and clarity, knowledge demands
Spatial Order
An organizational approach where ideas are arranged related to physical space
Reader and Task Considerations
Things about reading a text that have to do with the reader or with the reason the reader is reading the text. Teachers use their professional judgment, knowledge of their students, and knowledge of the subject to figure out and measure these things.
Claim and Refutation
An organizational approach where the author argues against a statement, fact, or claim.
Memoir
A story or account of someone’s life or a part of that person’s life.
Quantitative Measures of Texts
Things in a book that are too hard to measure for a reader. Most of the time, computer software is used to measure these.
Gradual Release
a teaching strategy in which students are gradually given less direct guidance
Signal Words
words or phrases that show the connection between ideas
Semantic Feature Analysis
a kind of step-by-step guide that helps students compare how different words work.
Order of Importance
An organizational approach where ideas are arranged with the most important claim at the top or bottom
