VOCABULARY OF LITERACY

Question 1

Comprehension Monitoring

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Being aware of when meaning is being attained or lost while reading.

Question 2

Inferring

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A comprehension strategy where a reader draws a conclusion based on text evidence and background knowledge.

Question 3

Metacognition

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The process of “thinking about thinking”.

Question 4

Retelling

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A detailed oral or written recounting of what has been read.

Question 5

Schema

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The sum total of our background knowledge and experience.

Question 6

Story Structure/Story Elements

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The way the content and events of a story are

organized into a plot.

Question 7

Summarizing

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A process in which a reader synthesizes the important ideas in a text.

Question 8

Synthesizing

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Summary with the inclusion of a reader’s schema, beliefs, emotions, and values that are important to the overall meaning.

Question 9

Text Features

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The items on a page that guide a reader through the information.

Question 10

Automaticity

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A general term that refers to any skilled and complex behavior that can be performed rather easily with little attention, effort, or conscious awareness.

Question 11

Fluency

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The ability to read a text accurately, quickly, and with proper expression and comprehension.

Question 12

Grouping

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Phrasing thought units while reading instead of focusing on word-by- word reading (processing text in 3-4 word phrasal units).

Question 13

Guided Repeated Oral Reading

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An instructional strategy where a student rereads a passage 2-7 times out loud with feedback and modeling.

Question 14

Lexical Access

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Reaching one’s internal dictionary in memory.

Question 15

Phrase Cued Text

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Reading passages that are marked in meaningful phrase boundaries with slash marks (single or double).

Question 16

Prosody

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The rhythm or cadence of spoken language.

Question 17

Reading Rate

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The speed in which a reader orally reads a passage.

Question 18

Round Robin Reading/Popcorn Reading

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Unrehearsed oral reading.

Question 19

Sight Vocabulary

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The words that a reader encounters in print which are instantly and effortlessly recognized.

Question 20

Sight Words

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Words that do not conform to traditional analysis methods, which must be learned by sight.

Question 21

Affix

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Any morpheme attached to the main meaning-bearing part of a word (includes prefixes, suffixes, and inflectional endings).

Question 22

Base Words

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Words from which many other words are formed.

Question 23

Cognate

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A word in a different language related to the same root.

Question 24

Connotation

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A definition based on usage.

Question 25

Context Clue

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Information in the immediate textual setting.

Question 26

Denotation

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The literal dictionary meaning of a word.

Question 27

Digraph

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2 vowels or consonants that make a single sound.

Question 28

Diphthong

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A sliding vowel sound.

Question 29

Direct Vocabulary Learning

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When students learn vocabulary through explicit

instruction in both the meanings of individual words and word-learning strategies.

Question 30

Etymology

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The study of word origins.

Question 31

Homograph

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Two words that share the same letters but have different

pronunciations and meanings.

Question 32

Homophone

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Two words that share the same sound but have different spellings and meanings.

Question 33

Indirect Vocabulary Learning

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When students learn the meaning of words indirectly when they hear or see the words used in many different contexts.

Question 34

Morpheme

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The smallest meaningful unit of language.

Question 35

Morpheme Relationship

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The relationship between one morpheme and

another.

Question 36

Morphophonology

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Using a word’s letter patterns to help determine, in part, the meaning and pronunciation of a word.

Question 37

Onomatopoeia

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Words that imitate the sound that is actually made.

Question 38

Word Root

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The part of a word that is derived from another language (often Latin or Greek) that usually does not stand alone in English (a bound morpheme).