General Information Flashcards
5 stages of learning geometry
- Visualization - recognize and name figures
- Analysis - describe figures and objects
- Informal deduction - classification of figures and objects
- Deduction - involves writing proofs from definitions
- Rigor - work in several geometrical systems
Accelerated erosion
Constitutes a major source of topographic change
Acrostic poem
A poem where the first letter of each line spells a word
Affix
A prefix or suffix
Age of Exploration
The 15th & 16th centuries
Alliteration
Repeated consonant sounds occurring at the beginning of words or within words
Alonso Alvarez de Pineda
Sailed the Gulf Coast in 1519 in search of a strait to the Pacific Ocean
Alphabetic knowledge
Knowledge of letter names and shapes. Acquired in a sequence that begins with letter names, then letter shapes, and finally letter sounds.
Alphabetic principle
An understanding that letters and letter patterns represent the sounds of spoken words
Using Syntactic Clues
Analyzing what an unfamiliar words’ placement in a sentence suggest about the meaning of the word is an example
Anaphora
The use of one word in place of another word
Anna Mary “Grandma” Moses
American artist
Attribute Blocks
Ideal for working on congruence and similarity
A balanced reading program consists of -
Explicit, systematic phonics instruction with meaningful, connected reading of informative, engaging text. It includes: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and text comprehension
Ballad
Narrative poem (tells a story) set to music
Bar graphs
Use horizontal or vertical bars to contrast quantities
Barbara Jordan
First African-American woman from a southern state to serve in Congress when she was elected to the House of Representatives in 1973
Big books
Large, oversized books used in shared reading, usually at the emergent reading level
Biography/Autobiography
Nonfiction; contains factual information about a real person
Blending
Combining individual phonemes to form words or combining onsets and rimes to make syllables, then combining syllables to make words
Books of True Experience
Nonfiction; true stories about real events from a person’s life or parts of his/her life
Caddos
Coastal Plains. Hunters, fishers, farmers. The Caddo word for friends or allies is “Tejas” which is where “Texas” comes from
Cause and Effect
Lists one or more causes and the resulting effect or effects
Choral reading
Takes place when a group of students or an entire class reads out loud
Cinquain
A short, unrhymed poem consisting of 22 syllables distributed as 2, 4, 6, 8,2 in five lines
Circle graphs, or pie charts
Representing the relationship that each part has to be whole
Civics
Study of how society maintains order through government institutions and the political process
Cloze Procedure
An assessment method used to determine readability of a text that involves deleting words from the text and leaving blank spaces
Comparison/Contrast
Explains how two or more things are alike and/or how they are different
Comprehension
Getting meaning from written text. Activating and using background knowledge, generating and asking questions, making inferences, predicting, summarizing, visualizing
Congruent Figures
Have exactly the same size
Consonant Blend
Consists of two or more consonants together in such a way that each is heard - like the blend of b and l in the word “blend”
Consonant Diagraph
Consist of two consonants that together represent one sound - like the “ph” sound in the word “diagraph”
Content Literacy
Used to describe the ability to use written texts as sources of information about a given topic or area
Continental Drift
Change in the positions of continents over long periods of time
Contractions
Reductions
Counting Bars
Illustrates congruence and similarity
Cultural Geography
Focuses on the relationships between people and their physical environments
Decodable Text
Text in which most of the words are made up of sound-letter relationships that have been taught, but that contain enough high-frequency irregular, and story words to make them sound natural
Decoding
The process of translating written words using letter-sound correspondence and blending the sounds into words
Diamante
A seven-lined poem set up in a diamond shape
Dilations
Expansions
Diphthong
A vowel pain in which the sound glides from one vowel to the other, or two vowels make another sound - oi, oy, ou, ow, and oe
Directed Reading Activity (DRA)
Teacher activates and develops schemata by linking the topic of the text to students’ own experiences or finding ways to get students interested in an unfamiliar topic (teacher director activity)
Drama
Fictional play/story; plot carried by dialogue
Effective Sequence for Phoneme Introduction
- Phoneme comparison in the following order: beginning, ending, middle sounds
- Phoneme blending
- Linking letters
- Manipulating phonemes through deletion, addition, substitution
- Phoneme segmentation
Emergent Literacy
Children’s beliefs about and experiences with reading and writing prior to formal instruction
Environmental Print
Written text that’s observable in one’s surroundings - signs, labels, stickers, billboards, brand names
Erosion
Breaking down and removal of physical material
Evaluative Comprehension
Ability to use critical thinking skills, logical analysis, and aesthetic considerations to evaluate a text
Expository Texts
Texts that provide factual information and explanations
Expository Writing
Type of oral or written discourse that is used to explain, describe, give information or inform
Expressive Language Skills
Speaking and writing
Fable
Fiction; short brief stories that teach a lesson or moral
Fantasy/Science Fiction
Fiction; plots contain some elements that could not happen in the world as we know it today
Flat Character
Not fully developed, we only know one side of the character
Fluency Stage
Children become more familiar with written language, and their decoding becomes more automatic as a result of learning more sight words
Fluent Reading
Ability to read quickly, accurately, smoothly, and with expression.
Folklore
The songs, stories, myths, and proverbs of people or “folk” as handed down by word of mouth
Folktales
Fiction; stories are not intended to be accepted as true, larger-than-life characters and very unusual happenings
Form
Three-dimensional quality of objects - depth, height, weight
Free Verse
Poetry that lacks rhyme and structured meter
Frustration Reading Level
Student pronounces less than 50% of the words correctly and answers less than 70% of questions correctly
Geography
The study of the Earth and its inhabitants
Graphemes
The letters that spell the sounds in a word; e.g. in the word “cat” the sound /k/ is represented by the grapheme (letter) “c”
Graphic Organizer
Visual representation of textual content
Graphophonemic
Knowledge
Letter recognition and letter-sound correspondence
Graphophonic Cues
Cues based on letter-sound correspondence that helps readers decode text and determine its meaning (When readers are using letter sounds and their position in words to help decode a word)
Guided Reading
The teacher explains the purpose for reading a particular text, as well as the structure for how to respond to what is read. Supports and extends reading process
Haiku
An unrhymed Japanese verse consisting of three lines of 5, 7, 5 syllables or 17 syllables in all
Harmony
Accompaniment of a song
Health-related Fitness
Promote for the development of better health now and in the future
Helen Keller
Blind, deaf, and dumb American writer
Historical Fiction
Fiction; based on real historical events
Historical Probability
Based upon data accumulation over time
How to Identify a Student’s Word Identification Strategies
Ask the student to explain how he/she figured out a word
History
Study of the material record of the past
Hue
Name of the color
Independent Reading Level
Student pronounces 95% or more of words correctly and shows more than 90% accuracy in response to comprehension questions