Reading First New Jersey - Professional Development
Video-based Reading Strategies and Techniques: Motivation and Background Knowledge
Glossary
- Background Knowledge/Prior Knowledge/Schema - The knowledge and experience a reader brings to the text
(* Source - Harvey & Goodvis, 2000, p. 26) - Informal Assessment - Appraisal by casual observation or by other nonstandardized procedures. Cp. formal assessment; integrated assessment.
(* Source - Glossary- Assessment, from the Nebraska Department of Education) - Motivation - the force that moves a learner to exude effort during a task.
(* Source - Gambrell, L. (2002) What we know about motivation to read. Reading Researchers in search of common ground (pp.129-139). Newark; DE: International Reading Association.) - Think Aloud - The think aloud model is a technique in which the teacher reads aloud from a
text and verbalizes good reader strategic thinking. The most common form of the
think aloud is to have the teacher do the think aloud while students listen. Yet other times, the teacher might do the think aloud while the students help the teacher out. As students become familiar with think alouds, specific students might be called on to model a think aloud.
(* Source - Six Research-Based Literacy Approaches for the Elementary Classroom, Lesson 2 -- Component 2: Shared Reading, from ASCD)
