Teaching Reading Flashcards
A student would add detail to their writing during the __________ stage of a writer’s workshop.
Revising
The four stages of reading are: _____________________.
Emergent, Beginning, Transitioning, and Fluent
When students “take charge” of their learning and self-regulate their comprehension and understanding, they are illustrating _____________.
metacognition
Using your background knowledge or schema about a topic to “fill in” the gaps of a text is called ____________.
Inferencing
Making educated guesses about what a text will be about or what will happen next is called _____________.
predicting
Being able to identify the main ideas of a text and giving a short description of what the text is about involves _______________.
summarizing
After reading a book about the Civil War, Miss Humphries asks the class: “What was this book about?” She is asking students to identify the ____________.
Main idea
Mrs. Silver is working with some students who have difficulty reading and comprehending long texts. She decides to divide the text into shorter segments, starring where she wants students to stop reading and reflect or summarize what they read. This is an example of ____________.
chunking a text
Use the following passage to answer the question below:
Matter comes in several forms. First, matter can be a liquid. Liquids have no form, and take the shape of whatever container they are poured into. Matter can also be a solid. Solids have a definite shape. Finally, gasses are also matter. Gasses have no definite shape.
After reading this passage in her Science textbook, Amy’s teacher asks her to identify how many forms that matter comes in (several, sentence 1). The type of question that Amy’s teacher is asking is an example of a _____________.
“Right There”
Use the following passage to answer the question below:
Matter comes in several forms. First, matter can be a liquid. Liquids have no form, and take the shape of whatever container they are poured into. Matter can also be a solid. Solids have a definite shape. Finally, gasses are also matter. Gasses have no definite shape.
After Amy finished reading the passage about matter, her teacher then asked her to identify a time when she encountered one of these types of matters in her own life. The type of question that Amy’s teacher is asking is an example of a _____________.
“on my own”
A graphic organizer that asks students to identify the characters, setting, events, conflict, and resolution in a narrative text is called a _____________.
story map
Mrs. Marks is reading a Science book aloud to her class. She wants to model a new comprehension strategy. The bestway to do this would be to engage the students in a(n) ___________.
shared reading
Tim is reading independently during his class’ reading block. After he finishes his chapter for the day, he pulls his reading log out of his book box and records the pages he read and he also writes a short reaction to the chapter. Tim is completing a _____________.
reader response
The vowels in the words snap, stop, sink, and end are examples of ____________.
long vowels
The word climb has ________ phonemes and ________ graphemes.
4 and 4
The underlined consonants in the words write, gnat, knife, and lamb are examples of ____________.
silent letters
The underlined parts of the words shop, chug, whip, and think are examples of ___________.
disgraphs
The underlined parts of the words snug, twig, clip, and brink are examples of ___________.
blends
The underlined parts of the words fan, can, ban, and man are examples of the _________.
onset
In the word unassuming, the free morpheme(s) is/are ____________.
assume
_____________ deals with translating phonemes into graphemes.
encoding
Prosody refers to a student’s ability to read with ____________.
appropriate intonation and expression
Typically, in one syllable CVC words like cat, bat, and sat, the vowel is a(n) ___________.
short vowel
The word uncongenial is an example of a _____________.
multisyllabic word
When a word is separated into syllables and the end of the syllable is a vowel it is a(n) __________.
open syllable
Words that contain the vowel team –ar, -er, -ir, and –ur are called ____________ because the “r” sound takes over the vowel sound.
r-controlled vowels
A __________ is an affix that attaches to the beginning of a word and can change the meaning of that word.
prefix
In word study, looking at a word’s origin (Greek or Latin) and how the meanings of words have changed throughout time is known as __________.
etymology
In this writing stage, students hold writing utensils in their fists and their writing resembles scribbles. Students are beginning to understand that writing carries meaning, and their work is often accompanied with a picture. What writing stage is this?
Preliterate Stage
What is an effective way to support English Language Learners (ELLs) in the classroom?
Use culturally and linguistically diverse learning materials representing different student cultures.
Encourage ELL students to participate in discussions, but do not force them
Use simple sentence structures and visual clues to support comprehension
