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Acceleration

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Progress through the curriculum at a faster rate

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Academic language

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The language that teachers and students use for imparting information, acquiring new knowledge and skills, describing abstract ideas, and developing content area and conceptual understanding

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Accuracy

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The ability to recognize words correctly

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Achievement test

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A formalized test that measures the extent to which a person has assimilated a body of information or processes a certain skill after instruction has taken place

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Affixes

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Bound morphemes that change the meaning or function of a root or stem to which they are attached, as the prefix ad- and the suffix -ing in adjoining

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Alliteration

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A pattern in which all words begin with the same sounds

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Analog

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A strategy of comparing patterns in words to ones already known

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Anecdotal notes

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Written observations taken by the teacher -usually on a clipboard- of literacy-related behaviors in an authentic literacy context

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Alphabetic principle

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The principle that there is a one-to-one correspondence between phonemes (or sounds) and graphemes (or letters); letters represent sounds

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Anticipation guide

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A prereading tool used to activate schemata and engage readers

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Antonyms

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A pair of words that have opposite meanings

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Asperger’s syndrome

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A mild form of autism

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Assessment

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The process of gathering information about students’ abilities using a variety of means and tools, both formal and informal

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Assistive technologies

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Electronic devices, equipment, or products designed or modified specifically to improve the functional capabilities of individuals with severe communication disorders and other disabilities

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Augmentative communication system

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Any system or device designed to enhance the communication abilities of individuals who are nonverbal or have speech too difficult to understand

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Authentic assessment

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Assessment representing literacy behavior in the community and in the workplace

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Autism

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A disability characterized by extreme withdrawal and underdeveloped communication or language skills

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Automaticity

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Fluent performance without the conscious deployment of attention

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Basal reader series

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A coordinated, graded set of textbooks, teacher’s guides, and supplementary materials from which to teach reading

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Basic words

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Commonplace words that are the building blocks of everyday language

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Behavioral disorder

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A disability in which students are characterized by inappropriate school behavior

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Big book

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An enlarged version of a book used by the teacher for mediated reading instruction so that students can track the print and attention can be focused on particular phonemic elements

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Blend

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A consonant sequence before or after a vowel within a syllable, such as cl, st, or br; the written language equivalent of a consonant cluster

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Book clubs

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Another term for literature circles

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Book contract

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An individual contract of literacy activities based upon a self-selected book

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Book talk

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Brief teaser that teacher presents to interest students in a particular book

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CALP

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An acronym for cognitive academic language proficiency, or the language of school

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Camouflage

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A vocabulary-enriching activity in which learners must try to disguise a chosen word by creating an oral story using several words above their normal speaking vocabulary. The other students must try to guess the hidden word.

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Clarifying table

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A graphic organizer used to help children understand the meaning of complex terms

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Closed sorts

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Word sorts that classify words into predetermined categories

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Cloze test

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An assessment device in which certain words are deleted from a passage by the teacher, with blanks left in their places for students to fill in by using the context of the sentence or paragraph

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Code switching

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The use of English for known words and the home language for words not yet acquired in English

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Cognitive academic language proficiency (CALP)

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Skill in academic language, or the language of school

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Compound words

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A composed of two separate words that have meaning on their own, such as baseball and lipstick

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Comprehensive input

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New information that is modified to enable an English learner to make connections to already known information

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Comprehension

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The interpretation of print on a page into a meaningful message that is dependent on the reader’s decoding abilities, prior knowledge, cultural and social background, and monitoring strategies- the “essence of reading.”

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Concept-oriented reading instruction (CORI)

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An integrated curriculum approach

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Concepts about print

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Concepts about the way print works, including directionality, spacing, identification of words and letters, connection between written and spoken language, and the function of punctuation

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Construct validity

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When test items assess the skills, knowledge, and understandings that most experts agree comprise the area being tested

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Constructivist model of learning

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A learning theory suggesting that students are active learners who organize and relate new information to their prior knowledge

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Content area literacy

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Reading, writing, speaking, listening, viewing, and visually representing with a focus on the bodies of knowledge in the academic curriculum; e.g., English, science, social studies, mathematics

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Content standards

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Stated expectations of what students should know and be able to do in particular subjects and grade levels

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Content validity

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When test items assess the ability needed to perform the behaviors expected in the course or curriculum

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Context clues

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The syntactic and semantic information in the surrounding words, phrases, sentences, and paragraphs in a text

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Context-relationship procedure

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A strategy utilized to help students integrate new words into their meaning vocabularies

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Contract spelling

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Children have a written agreement with the teacher each week to learn specific words

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Controlled vocabulary

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A system of introducing only a certain number of grade-level appropriate words before the reading of each basal story, with periodic review

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Conventional spelling stage

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The final stage of spelling development, in which the student has mastered the basic principles of English orthography and spells most words correctly

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Conversation clubs

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Small, student-led groups established to enhance oral language in an informal, enjoyable setting

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Cooperative learning

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An instructional model in which students work together as a team to complete activities or assignments

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Criterion-referenced assessment

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A test for which scores are interpreted by comparing the test taker’s score to a specified performance level rather than to the scores of other students

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Critical reading

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Reading to evaluate the material being read

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Cubing

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A writing scaffold used for students to model how to organize a six-paragraph essay

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Cuing systems

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The four language systems that readers rely upon for cues as they seek meaning from text: graphophonic (based on letter-sound relationships), syntactic (based on grammar or structure), semantic (based on meaning), and pragmatic (based on social and cultural norms).

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Curriculum-based assessment

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The process of matching the curriculum to the content standards assessed in a testing program to ensure that teachers will cover the material assessed

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Data chart

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A table or grid for recording answers to specific research questions (columns) gathered from a variety of sources (rows)

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Decidable text

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Beginner-oriented books that contain the same letters or word patterns currently being studied, or those previously taught

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Decoding

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The translation of written words into verbal speech for oral reading or mental speech for silent reading

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Deduction

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The process of helping students construct meaning by going from the general to the particular, through explanation

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Derivational relations stage

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A spelling stage characterized by the ability to recognize and spell bases and roots correctly. Correlates to an advanced stage of reading and writing

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Developmental spelling stages

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Stage-like progressions through which students advance when learning to spell, characterized by increasingly complex understandings about the organizational patters of words, including precommunicative, prephonetic, transitional, and conventional spelling stages

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Diagnosis

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The act, process, or result of identifying the nature of a disorder or disability through observation and examination, often including the planning of instruction and the assessment of the strengths and needs of the student

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Diagnostic test

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Age-related, norm-referenced assessment of specific skills and behaviors students have acquired compared with other students of the same chronological age

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Dialogue journals

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Journals that provide a means of two-way written communications between learners and their teachers, in which learners share their thoughts with teachers (including personal comments and descriptions of life experiences), and the teachers, in turn, write reactions to the learners’ messages. Also called interactive journals.

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Differentiated instruction

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Instruction designed to meet the needs of all students by adjusting content, process, or product

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Direct instruction

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Teacher control of the learning environment through structured, systematic lessons; goal setting; choice activities; and feedback

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Directed reading thinking activity (DRTA)

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A time-honored format for guiding students as they read selections, usually from basal reading program

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Directionality of print

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The concept that, in English, writing goes from left to right and from top to bottom. Directionality of print varies among languages

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Directive context

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Text that provides helpful clues for figuring out word meanings

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Discussion

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Oral communication in an informal setting, involving an exploration of an issue or topic; problem solving by cooperative thinking

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Double entry journal

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This journal uses a two-column format for entries of two types of student response to text

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Dramatic play

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Play that simulates real experiences with no set plot or goal

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Dyad reading

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A paired reading activity in which students alternately read aloud or listen and summarize what their partner has read

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Dyslexia

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A developmental reading disability, presumably congenital and often hereditary, that may vary in degree from mild to severe

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Echo reading

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A strategy where a lead reader reads aloud a section of text and others follow immediately after it, or echo the leader’s reading

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Editing

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The process of reviewing text in draft form to check for correctness of the mechanics and conventions in writing

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Emergent literacy

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A person’s developing awareness of the interrelatedness of oral and written language that occurs from birth to beginning reading

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Encoding

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Transferring oral language into written language

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Engagement

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A process involving a complex set of ongoing activities that occur in the classroom

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English learner

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A person who is in the process of acquiring English as a second language

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Enrichment

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Strategies designed to deepen appreciation for reading selections

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Environmental print

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Print that is encountered outside of books and that is a pervasive part of everyday living

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ESL (English as a second language)

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A program for teaching English language skills to those whose native language is not English

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Etymology

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The study of the history of words

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Evaluation

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Making a judgement about assessment dats or assigning a score or grade to assessment data

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Experience-text relationship

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A lesson format for narrative text that helps students develop prior knowledge and relate it to what they read

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Experiential background

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The fund of total experiences that aid a reader in finding meaning in printed symbols

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Experimental spellings

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Unconventional spellings, or approximations, resulting from an emergent writer’s initial attempts to associate sounds with letters

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Expository frame

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A basic structure for expository text designed to help students organize their thoughts for writing or responding to text

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Expository structure

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Content organized around a main idea and supporting details

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Expository text

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A text written in a precise, factual writing style

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Expressive writing

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Personal writing that expresses emotion, such as diaries or letters

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FLIP strategy

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A strategy readers use to examine a text for reader-friendliness, language,interest, and degree of prior knowledge needed to understand the text

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Fluency

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Achieving speed and accuracy in recognizing words and comprehending text, and coordinating the two

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Fluent reader

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A reader whose reading accuracy and rate, meet, or exceed normal expectations with respect to age, ability, and grade-level; an independent reader

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Formal assessments

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Commercially designed and produced tests given on single occasions

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Formal (standardized) test

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A testing instrument for which readability and validity can be verified; the results of these tests are based on right or wrong answers, and individual scores are interpreted against national norms

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Formative assessment

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Classroom-based measures intended to provide feedback to learners on areas needing improvement

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Four-by-four model

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A “sheltered English” instructional model that addresses four developmental levels of language proficiency (beginning, early intermediate, intermediate, early advanced) and four literacy skills (reading, writing, speaking, listening) through the use of content themes

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Frustration level

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A level of reading difficulty at which a reader is unable to cope; when reading is on the frustration level, the reader recognizes approximately 90 percent or fewer of the words encountered and comprehends 50 percent or fewer

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General-utility words

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More complex words that are used often by proficient readers and speakers but tend not to be specific to any particular subject

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GIST (generating interactions between schemata and text)

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A strategy used by readers to summarize text

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Goldilocks strategy

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Students examine a book to determine if it is “to easy,” “too hard,” or “just right” for them to read

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Grade-level equivalency score

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A conversion of a score on a test into one that tells how a student compares with others in the same grade; e.g., a grade equivalent score of 4.5on a reading test would suggest that the student is reading as well as students in the normative sample who are in the fifth month of fourth grade

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Graded word list

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A list of words at successive reading levels

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Grand conversation

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A response to text strategy whereby students share personal connections to the text, make predictions, ask questions, and show individual appreciation

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Grapheme

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A written symbol that represents a phoneme

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Graphic novels

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Book-length comic books

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Graphic organizer

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A visual representation of facts and concepts from a text and their relationships within an organized frame

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Graphophonic cues

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Cues based on sound or visual similarities

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Group profile

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A listing of scores on a specific reading or writing skills that allows the teacher to view the strengths and weaknesses of the whole class for purposes of reteaching and reporting to parents and others

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Guided reading

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A teacher-mediated instructional method designed to help readers improve skills, comprehension, recall, and appreciate of text

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Herringbone strategy

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A graphic organizer use with expository text to show who, what, where, why, and the main idea for a passage

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Heterogeneous literature groups

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Literature circles based not upon reading ability level, but on self-selection of a particular book

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High-frequency words

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Words common in reading material that are often difficult to learn because they cannot be easily decoded

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High-stakes assessments

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Assessment tools mandated by the state or district in which the teachers work that are often used to determine how well students are doing compared with other students in the area, state, or nation and to help decide whether certain programs will be funded

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Holistic approach

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A whole-to-parts approach in which meaning is considered to be more critical than the underlying skills of reading

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Holographic stage

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The earliest language acquisition stage, in which one word is used to represent a concept or idea

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Impromptu speech

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A short speech given on a topic with little or no preparation

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Independent level

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A level of reading difficulty low enough that the reader can progress without noticeable obstructions; the reader can recognize approximately 98 percent of the words and comprehend at least 90 percent of what is read

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Individual dictation

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A strategy in which the student dictates a message while the teacher writes it down, sounding out the words in front of the student

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Individual education program (IEP)

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A written educational plan specifying a special student’s annual goals, current levels of educational achievement, and short-term instructional objectives; prepared by a team that includes the students parents, teachers, and often the student

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Induction

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The process of helping students to construct meaning by going from the particular to the general, with the help of examples

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Informal assessment

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A nonstandardized measurement in which a teacher seeks to learn about what a student is able to do in certain area of literacy, interprets the results, and uses those results to plan instruction

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Informal reading inventory

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An informal assessment instrument designed to help the teacher determine a students independent, instructional, frustration, and reading capacity levels

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Informal speaking

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Oral language of a nonacademic, conversational nature

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Information literate

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Knowing how to locate, acquire, and use information

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Informational books

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Nonfiction books that provide factual information about a topic; expository text

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Instructional level

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A level of difficulty low enough that the reader can be instructed by the teacher during the process; in order for the material to be at this level, the reader should be able to read approximately 95 percent of the words in a passage and comprehend at least 75 percent

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Interactive electronic books

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Computerized programs that allow learners to read books on a computer while resounding to questions about the text, and often even adapting the text

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Interactive oral reading

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A method for teaching vocabulary in which adults read aloud to learners, stopping on occasion to discuss individual words

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Interactive (story) writing

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A mediated writing experience used to assist emergent readers in learning to read and write. With help from the teacher, students dictate sentences, and the teacher verbally stretches each words so the students can distinguish sounds and letters. Students use chart paper to write the letter while repeating the sound

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Interest and attitude inventory

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An informal assessment device that allows teachers to discover how their students feel about reading and about themselves as readers

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Interest groups

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Students are organized according to a common interest in a topic or book selection

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Interest inventory

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A list of questions used to assess a students preferences in a particular area

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Intervention

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The corrective instructional program the teacher devises as a result of assessment

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Interview

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An oral language activity consisting of asking another person a specific set of questions

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Jigsaw grouping

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A collaborative learning technique in which individuals become “experts” on one portion of text and share their expertise with a small group, called their home group. Each member of the home group becomes an “expert” on a different part of the text and shares his new knowledge with the group so that each group member will get a sense of the whole text

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Journals

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Journals are kept by students in the same way artists keep sketchbooks. Students write in the regularly to record life events of their choosing or, for very beginning writers, to complete sentence stems offered by the teacher. At the beginning reader stage, journals are often accompanied by illustrations and are rarely corrected

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K-W-L Plus strategy

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A process intended to help students organize learned information into a coherent paragraph or research report; typically involves a chart with column headings such as “What We Know,” “What We Want to Know,” and “What We Learned.” The “Plus” refers to using additional categories of information, perhaps to write summaries or reports

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Language arts

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The global term for reading, writing, listening, speaking, viewing,and visually representing

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Language disorders

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Communication disorders that involve poor speech or language performance due to various factors, including voice quality, speech fluency, and sound production

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Language experience approach (LEA)

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An approach in which reading and the other language arts are interrelated and the experiences of students are used as the basis for the material that is written and then used for reading

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Learning center

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A location within the classroom in which students are presented with instructional materials, specific directions, clearly defined objectives, and/or provisions for self-evaluation

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Learning disability

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A condition in which a person with average or above intelligence is substantially delayed in academic achievement because of a processing disorder, not because of an environmental, an economic, or a cultural disadvantage

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Learning logs

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Journals students use to summarize a days lesson to react to what they have learned

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Letter name/alphabetic stage

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Spelling characterized by literally matching letters to sounds in a linear sound-by-sound fashion

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Listening vocabulary

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The words a person is able to understand aurally; also known as receptive vocabulary

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Literacy

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The competence to carry out the complex reading and writing tasks in a functionally useful way necessary to the world of work and life outside the school

149
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Literacy scaffold

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A temporary writing structure

150
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Literal comprehension

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Understanding those ideas that are directly stated

151
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Literary sociogram

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A diagram used to help students understand the complexity of the relationships among characters in a story or chapter

152
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Literature circles

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Small, student-led boom discussion groups that meet regularly in the classroom to read and discuss self-selected books

153
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Literature double response journal

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A special type of reading log with quotes from a story or informational book in the left column and a personal reflection on the quote in the right column

154
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Literature response groups

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Same as literature circles and analogues to writing response groups; in literature response groups, students discuss the work of published authors; in writing response groups, they discuss the work of their peers

155
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Long vowels

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Vowels that represent the sounds I words that are heard in letter names

156
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Look-say method

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An early meaning-based method of reading instruction requiring students to use the context alone to figure out words they did not know

157
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Low-utility words

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Less frequently encountered words that are usually found in particular content areas

158
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Masking

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Using a sliding frame or other device to help students focus on a particular word or part of a word

159
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Matthew effect

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The phenomenon that suggests that skilled decodes get better at reading while poor decoders tend to fall further behind

160
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Meaning vocabulary

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That body of words the meaning of which one understands and can use

161
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Media literacy

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The skill of thinking critically about what one sees, hears, and reads when presented through a wide variety of media

162
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Mediated reading

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Large or small group instruction in which the teacher guides the students in selected reading skills

163
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Metacognition

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A person’s awareness of her own thinking and her conscious efforts to monitor this awareness

164
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Metacognitive strategies

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Techniques for monitoring one’s own thinking

165
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Metacomprehension

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Understanding what you know about how you comprehend; self-knowledge about your own comprehension processes

166
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Metalinguistic ability

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The conscious awareness of sound, meaning, and the practical nuances of language

167
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Minilesson

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A short lesson on procedures, concepts, strategies, or skills taught based on teacher observation of the need for it

168
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Miscue

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An unexpected reading response (deviation from text)

169
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Miscue analysis

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A procedure that let’s the teacher gather important instructional information by providing a framework for observing students’ oral reading and their ability to construct meaning

170
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Mock interviews

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Pretend discussions with deceased or fictional figures

171
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Modeling

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Showing an instructional strategy through teacher demonstration

172
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Morning message

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Students observe as the teacher writes a meaningful morning message on the board about a specific event that is planned for the day, or an interesting question. It is used as an instructional tool for discussing skills that the students are learning, such as conventions of writing or phonic elements

173
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Morpheme

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The smallest meaning-bearing linguistic unit in a language

174
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Morphology

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The aspects of language structure related to the ways words are formed from prefixes, roots, and suffixes and are related to each other.

175
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Motivation

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The incentive to do something; a stimulus to act

176
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Multicultural

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Classrooms are multicultural settings when students from a variety of cultures learn together daily, making it necessary to know how students’ perceptions, knowledge, and demeanor are shaped by their experiences at home and in their own community

177
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Narrative text

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Text that contains the structural features of a story

178
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Non directive context

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Text that does not provide helpful context clues for determining a words meaning

179
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Nonstage theory

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A theory that suggests that unskilled and skilled readers use the same strategies to figure out unknown words

180
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Norm-referenced test

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A test designed to yield results interpreted in terms of the average results of a sample population

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