Middle Level Lit Midterm

Front 1

Brief first drats written in response to reading a short piece of literature, a line from a poem or essay, or a prompt is called a what?

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quick write

Front 2

The form of writing in which participants write for a brief period of time on an assigned or self-selected topic without prior planning and without stopping is called what?

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Freewriting

Front 3

Freewriting can be used as what?

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a warm up activity or a way of freeing up the participants writing ability

Front 4

Name the 5 writing process steps:

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Prewriting
Drafting/Composing
Revising
Editing
Publishing

Front 5

What are some things that can be done during the prewriting part of the writing process?

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Quick Write: prompts or free writing
Brainstorming
Think-Pair-Share

Front 6

What are some things that can be done during the Revising portion of the writing process?

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Have students switch and ask questions about quick write.

read aloud

ask your own questions

Front 7

Engaging students in discussions that ask them to see similarities and differences to categorize and make predictions is called:

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higher level thinking

Front 8

The process where we construct meaning from print is called:

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Reading

Front 9

The difference between independent performance and potential performance is called the what:

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zone of proximal developement

Front 10

Support provided by an adult is called:

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scaffolding

Front 11

Who's theory was scaffolding?

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Vgotsky

Front 12

Reading isn't so much about getting meaning from a story as it is __________.

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bringing meaning to it

Front 13

True or False: The reader's role is active and to construct meaning from text.

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True

Front 14

The relationship between the reader and the text is what?

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transaction

Front 15

The position or attitude the reader takes is what?

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stance

Front 16

What are the two stances?

Back 16

efferent and aesthetic

Front 17

The focus on reading is on carrying away info is what stance?

Back 17

efferent

Front 18

The focus on reading is experiencing the piece is what stance?

Back 18

aesthetic

Front 19

There are 11 basic principles to help determine what kind of program will help meet literacy needs of today's students. Students become proficient readers by:

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reading

Front 20

There are 11 basic principles to help determine what kind of program will help meet literacy needs of today's students. Reading should be what?

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easy, but not too easy

Front 21

There are 11 basic principles to help determine what kind of program will help meet literacy needs of today's students. Instruction should be what?

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functional and contextual

Front 22

There are 11 basic principles to help determine what kind of program will help meet literacy needs of today's students. Teachers should make what?

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connections

Front 23

There are 11 basic principles to help determine what kind of program will help meet literacy needs of today's students. Teacher should promote what?

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independence

Front 24

There are 11 basic principles to help determine what kind of program will help meet literacy needs of today's students. Teachers should believe can do what?

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become proficient readers and writers

Front 25

There are 11 basic principles to help determine what kind of program will help meet literacy needs of today's students. The literacy program should be what?

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goal oriented and systematic

Front 26

There are 11 basic principles to help determine what kind of program will help meet literacy needs of today's students. Teacher should build what?

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higher level literacy skills

Front 27

There are 11 basic principles to help determine what kind of program will help meet literacy needs of today's students. Teachers should build student's sense of competence and what?

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motivation

Front 28

There are 11 basic principles to help determine what kind of program will help meet literacy needs of today's students. Ongoing what is an essential element in an effective literacy program?

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assessment

Front 29

There are 11 basic principles to help determine what kind of program will help meet literacy needs of today's students. Teacher's should build student's language proficiency by adding what?

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vocabulary

Front 30

How can teacher's motivate students in reading?

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give them choices

Front 31

A top-down approach is callled

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holistic

Front 32

The top-down approach has emphasis on the _____ rather than the text.

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reader

Front 33

Name two approaches to teaching reading.

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basal approach and literacy based approach

Front 34

The basal approach is _________ based.

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language

Front 35

What literature approach uses trade books as a basis for providing instruction?

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Literature based approach

Front 36

Core literature has what kind of books in its approach?

Back 36

children's classics

Front 37

Text sets have what kind of books?

Back 37

a group of related books

Front 38

What is the act of writing a piece?

Back 38

Composing

Front 39

What does DEAR stand for?

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Drop everything and read

Front 40

You can use prior knowledge, context clues, sentence structure, word analysis and reference aids to do what?

Back 40

teach vocabulary

Front 41

Name 3 ways to teach vocabulary:

Back 41

context clues
word analysis (root words, morphemic analysis, affixes)
reference aids

Front 42

An appositive is what?

Back 42

a word or phrase that describes a noun

Front 43

When you can take out the appositive, you need what?

Back 43

to use commas

Front 44

Before reading you should?

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activate prior knowledge
predict
set a purpose for reading

Front 45

A journal where the student assumes the role as one of the characters is called what?

Back 45

literary journal

Front 46

A journal that has two columns, one for quotes and one for reflections on quotes is a what?

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double-entry journal

Front 47

A journal where the student writes to the teacher and the teacher responds is what?

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dialogue journal

Front 48

In literature discussion groups, IRE stands for what?

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Initiate, Respond, and Evaluate

Front 49

In a Literature Discussion Group, what roles are assigned?

Back 49

discussion leader, summarizer, illustrator, word chief

Front 50

Adding material, rearranging material, changing sequence and substituting more vivid words is what part of the writing process?

Back 50

revising

Front 51

When revising it is better to focus on one element at a time. Name 4 elements:

Back 51

Leads, details, word choices, concluding sentences

Front 52

A word that connects other words or groups of words is a what?

Back 52

conjunction

Front 53

A word added to a sentence to convey emotion is what?

Back 53

Interjection

Front 54

Clustering is an example of what?

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A semantic map

Front 55

A labeled drawing to tie in with reading is called what?

Back 55

labeling

Front 56

Name a strategy to predict vocabulary word meanings?

Back 56

Possible Sentences

Front 57

Dramatizing, Exploring word histories, word of the day, and word sorts are all strategies for doing what?

Back 57

teaching vocabulary

Front 58

The four steps in a literature circle are:

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form groups
choose literature
read and respond
grand conversation

Front 59

Words that have similar meanings are called what?

Example: luna and lunar

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cognates

Front 60

When students are reading and you ask them to use the dictionary to define words they don't know as they're reading, this is called what?

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The incidental approach

Front 61

Words that are pronounced the same,but have different meanings are called what?

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homophones

Front 62

Words that are spelled the same, but have different pronunciations are called what?

Back 62

homographs

Front 63

The implied meaning of a word is called what?

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Connotation

Front 64

Name the 8 Types of Context Clues:

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Dis Asshole Says Finding Each Context Clue is Effortless:
D
A
S
F
E
C
C
E

Front 65

The DERRICK lifted the glider into the sky is what kind of context clue?

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functional indicator

Front 66

Asshole, a part of the butt area, is what kind of context clue?

Back 66

appositive

Front 67

The rest die from other predators, such as lions is what kind of context clue?

Back 67

examples

Front 68

You should always be able to tell where your teammates and opponents are is what kind of context clue?

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Comparison-contrast

Front 69

Goride was born on March 31, in the town of Floral, in the province of Saskatchewan is what kind of context clue?

Back 69

classification

Front 70

Suddenly, the hedge clippers caught a branch, and my finger was hanging by a thread and I felt excruciating pain is what kind of context clue?

Back 70

Experience

Front 71

She had a fever. No one knwe what brought on the ague is what kind of context clue?

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Synonym

Front 72

The I:drive, an external memory holder, is my favorite is what kind of context clue?

Back 72

explicit explanation or definition

Front 73

True or False: There are 6 common types of syllables.

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True

Front 74

What syllable type has one vowel at the end of the syllable.

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open

Front 75

What syllable type has one vowel at the beginning or in the middle of a syllable?

Back 75

Closed

Front 76

________ has two vowels or a vowel consonant (aw, ew)

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vowel team

Front 77

_________ is followed by the letter r. R controls the sound of the vowel

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R-controlled duh

Front 78

Who should coffee be divided?

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cof - fee

Front 79

How should employ be divided?

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em - ploy

Front 80

How should bonus be divided?

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bo nus

Front 81

If there are two vowels together that do no make a long vowel sound or dipthong (aw) then how would you divide poem?

Back 81

po - em

Front 82

How would you divide busboy?

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bus - boy

Front 83

What are the pre-reading comprehension strategies?

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Activate prior knowledge
Set a purpose for reading
Preview and predict

Front 84

A unit of organized knowledge is what?

Back 84

schema

Front 85

The interactive process between three factors: reader, the text, and the context is what?

Back 85

Comprehension

Front 86

Building associations and manipulating information is what?

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elaborating

Front 87

Studying or repeating something so as to remember it is called what?

Back 87

rehearsing

Front 88

Being aware of or checking cognitive processes and understanding is what?

Back 88

monitoring

Front 89

Name some strategies to teach comprehension:

Back 89

Comparing
Organizing
elaborating
rehearsing
monitoring

Front 90

What are the types of reading test we've administered to our focus child?

Back 90

San Diego Quick Test
Spelling Inventory
Writing Sample - Summary
Words Per Minute - Fluency
Running Record

Front 91

Some preparational strategies for teaching comprehension are:

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Activate prior knowledge
set purpose and goal for reading
preview
predict

Front 92

5 Organizational strategies are:

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main idea
summarizing
sequencing
following directions
supporting details

Front 93

Some elaboration strategies for comprehension are:

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making inferences
question generation

Front 94

Name a method to teach comprehension during a preparation strategy:

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questioning

Front 95

Name a method of teaching during an organizational strategy:

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visual organizer

Front 96

There are two types of inferences: What are they?

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Schema based
Text Based

Front 97

What are two types of elaboration strategies for inferences?

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imaging
Question generating

Front 98

Name two types of Questioning strategies for inferences:

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ReQuest
QAR

Front 99

Promoting the use of knowledge, improving the ability to make predictions, and overall comprehension are the effects of using __________ as a strategy to teach inferences.

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imaging

Front 100

This strategy promotes text to self, text to text, and text to world deeper thinking:

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QAR

Front 101

Right there, think and search, author and you, and on my own are components of what inference strategy?

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QAR

Front 102

What type of conjunction joins a dependent clause and an independent clause?

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subordinating conjunction

Front 103

What type of conjunction joins single words or groups of words?

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Coordinating conjunction

Front 104

What are the three modes of writing?

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Informational
Narrative
Persuasive

Front 105

An appositive clause renames or describes what?

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the noun

Front 106

_____________ provides additional information for your reader, but which could be left our of the sentence without altering its basic message.

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Parenthetical clauses