SIOP Model Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol. Has 30 components including a
lesson plan checklist.
7 Strategies of Highly Effective Readers Activating, Inferring, Monitoring-Clarifying,
Questioning, Searching-Selecting, Summarizing, visualizing-organizing.
Activating What they already know about a topic.
Inferring Putting together what is said and what is implied.
Monitoring-Clarifying Think about what they are reading and if they understand it.
Questioning Reader asks self questions about the text and then answers those questions
Searching-Selecting Search sources to get information to help understand text.
Summarizing Restates meaning in own words.
Visualizing-organizing Use of graphic organizers to understand text.
, Formative Assessment Ongoing monitoring of student progress. Helps to determine the
next steps in teaching.
Summative Assessment Assessment at the end of a unit or semester. Less frequent, used
to assign grades.
William Shakespeare 1564-1616 English Renaissance poet and playwright. Considered
the foremost dramatist in world literature and the greatest author to write in the English
language.
154 sonnets, 38 plays.
Shakespeare Plays All's Well That Ends Well, As You Like It, The Comedy of Errors, Love's
Labors Lost, Measure for Measure, The Taming of the Shrew, The Winter's Tale, King John, etc.
William Faulkner Mississippi 1897-1962. Wrote 1 play, poems, essays, novels, short
stories, and screen plays.
Known as one of the greatest authors of southern literature.
Novels based on his experience living in Mississippi and the 2 counties where he lived.
The Sound and The Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, Absalom Absalom, A Rose for Emily.
Geoffrey Chaucer 1343-1400 Medieval Poet. Known as the father of English literature.
Wrote long narrative poems.