Brown- Reading And Writing Final- Normal Questions

Front 1

Name the 8 Thinking Processes

Back 1

1. Connect
2. Organize
3. Image
4. Predict
5. Self-monitor
6. Generalize
7. Apply
8. Evaluate

Front 2

What are the key ideas of reading and writing (chapter 1)

Back 2

. Thinking is the essence of reading and writing
. Feeling is the energizer of reading and writing
. Language is the foundation of reading and writing
. the children we teach have individual, cultural, and language differences
. reading and writing are learned in a variety of ways
. children need a balanced literacy program

Front 3

What are the 7 crucial understandings about print? (chapter 2)

Back 3

1. Know why we read and write
2. Build background knowledge and concepts
3. Develop concepts about print
4. Develop phonemic awareness
5. Learn some concrete words
6. Know some letter names and sounds
7. Want to read and write!

Front 4

Fluency is the bridge between _____ and _____

Back 4

word identification and comprehension

Front 5

What are some ways to improve fluency?

Back 5

-rereading
-writing
-meaningful connections
-word wall
-echo reading
-choral readings
-taped readings
-paired readings
-not letting children correct other children

Front 6

What is a powerful way to help students grasp morphemic analysis?

Back 6

-word families
-take a word and make more words out of it

Front 7

What are ways children develop vocabulary?

Back 7

-direct experience
-media
-dramatizations
-making connections

Front 8

What is important when selecting vocab for special attention?

Back 8

- number of words
- student selectoin (students find vocab during activies and teachers assess their importance
- teacher selections (present meanings as students encounter words that meet certain criteria
- when to teach words (before guided reading, display selected words)

Front 9

What are the 5 ways to activate prior knowledge?

Back 9

1. brainstorming
2. questioning
3. predicting
4. writing
5. discussion

Front 10

Why is prior knowledge the bridge to new knowledge?

Back 10

. students use prior knowledge to make sense of print
. activating prior knowledge before reading is an important part of the reading process

Front 11

prior knowledge is the bridge to _____.

Back 11

new knowledge

Front 12

6 Key ideas for reading and responding to literature for children (chapter 6)

Back 12

1. welcome the diverse world of literature
2. use literature to promote thinking and feeling
3. link reading and writing instruction with children's books
4. schedule daily self-selected reading
5. celebrate book response projects
6. enrich all subjects with literature

Front 13

Literature links to thinking and feeling. Why?

Back 13

Thinking- for others to form their own connectoins

Feeling- for readers to respond emotionally to what they read

Front 14

Effective teachers link ____ and ____ instruction with children's books (chapter 6)

Back 14

reading and writing

Front 15

Two instructional arrangements for enriching all subjects with literature include what two studies?

Back 15

1. theme study
2. book study

Front 16

What does reading comprehension requre?

Back 16

. word identification
. prior knowledge
. strategies
. engagment

Front 17

What are the 4 steps for kindergarten self-selected writing?

Back 17

1. draw a picture
2. write something
3. write your name
4. copy or stamp the date

Front 18

What is the relationship between reading and writing?

Back 18

-phonics knowledge allows fro decoding and spelling
-more they can read, the more they can write
- prior knowledge needed for both
-each model for eachother
-writing is often over learning reading
-writing instruction leads to reading fluency

Front 19

What are some characteristics of self-selected writing?

Back 19

-children come up with their own topics
-promotes engagement
-motivation
-children share their writings
-1st draft is not graded

Front 20

What is the difference between focused writing and self-selected writing?

Back 20

Focused-
-prompt given
-brainstorm
-single draft more challenging than the process

Self-Selected
-no prompt
-less formal
-often not edited

Front 21

What are the best ways to assess writing?

Back 21

1. engage students in writing from day 1
2. analyze writing for high frequency words
3. ask students to write same prompt halfway through the year and then at the end of the year

Front 22

What are the 4 ways to assess progress?

Back 22

1. assessing emergent literacy
2. assessing word strategy
3. assessing comprehension strategies
4. assessing writing

Front 23

How are reading and writing complementary processes?

Back 23

-what you learn in one helps the other
-reading you decode the words, writing you encode
-writing-manipulate using symbols and in the process learning how written language works

Front 24

What are some characteristics of shared reading?

Back 24

-studnets join the teacher to read aloud in unison from enlarged text-a big book, poem, etc.
-builds on previous experience with books
-expands vocab
-context learning specific words
-helps children become familiar with text
-provides language models

Front 25

What are some charateristics of guided reading?

Back 25

-a context in which a teacher supports each reader's development of effective strategies for processing novel texts at increasingly challenging levels of difficulty
-gives children the opportunity to develop as individual readers
-opportunity for teachers to observe
-develops reading stratgies for wwhen they read independently

Front 26

Book buddy is guided reading because...

Back 26

. provides the opportunity to read a variety of texts
. provides the opportunity to problem solve, to use strategies
. provides the opportunity to attend to words in text
. challenges the reader and creates context for successful processing on novel texts
. teacher seletion of text, guideance, deomstration and explanation is available to reader

Front 27

What is the overall purpose of guided reading?

Back 27

to enable children to read for meaning

Front 28

What is the ultimate goal of guided reading?

Back 28

to help children learn how to use independent reading stragies successfully

Front 29

Children develop a network of strategies that allow them to attend to information from different sources. What are the 3 sources of information?

Back 29

1. meaning cues
2. structure or syntax
3. visual information

Front 30

What is the different between dynamic and traditional grouping?

Back 30

Traditional-
-progress through a fixed sequence of books
-controlleed vocab words pre taught
-based on process through set group of materials

Dynamic

-difference in sequence of book level
-all children read the whole text to themselves
-based on daily observation and regular, systematic individual assessment

Front 31

What are Clay's 3 categories of strategies?

Back 31

1. strategies that maintain fluency
2. strategies that detect and correct error
3. strategies for problem solving new words

Front 32

What are two critical factors in helping children read fluently

Back 32

1. book selection
2. introduction

Front 33

What are the 3 factors relating to the sequence of teaching skills that have served as the basis for lengthy debate?

Back 33

1. which vowel letter-sound to teach first
2. whether to teach short or long sounds ffirst
3. whether to teach these two sounds conseculatively

Front 34

Good readers read for meaing with _________ because they are focusing on the meaning but also paying attention to visual information

Back 34

divided attention