Instructional Strategies
A collaborative and student-centered reading strategy where students take on one of four roles
What is a Literature Circle?
The study of the speech sound (i.e., phoneme) system of a language, including the rules for combining and using phonemes.
What is phonology?
A type of writing that would include essay questions, summaries, reaction papers, and reflections.
What is semi-formal writing.
A rule-governed behavior made up of a receptive component and an expressive component.
What is language?
The words a student actively uses when talking, writing, or communicating.
What is Expressive Vocabulary?
A planned discussion, conversation, or dialogue in a classroom where students use speaking and listening skills to exchange ideas.
What is discourse?
The study of the rules that govern how morphemes, the minimal meaningful units of language, are used in a language.
What is morphology?
A type of writing that we do the most as adults that includes lists, scribbles on a paper to remind oneself, taking notes, and writing down directions.
What is casual writing?
Includes the ability to make inferences; monitor comprehension ; interpret complex language, such as jokes and puns; and use text structure knowledge.
What are higher order language skills?
The words that a student understands, based on context and background experiences, but may not necessarily use in his or her own speaking or writing.
What is receptive vocabulary?
The kind of writing that helps students understand the curriculum, explain their ideas, and what will be required of them in high school and beyond
What is expository writing?
The rules that pertain to the ways in which words can be combined to form sentences in a language.
What is syntax?
A type of writing that includes research reports, business letters and other formal correspondence, job applications, writing a newspaper article or other publications.
What is formal writing?
The ability to think about and reflect upon language.
What is metalinguistic?
Effective instruction in oral language starts with effective ______?
What is oral language assessment?
Instruction includes rhyming, alliteration, onset/rime , blending/segmenting, and manipulating activities at the word, syllable, and sound level.
What is phonological awareness instruction?
The meaning of words and combinations of words in a language.
What is semantics?
People use this to express themselves, inform their reader, to persuade a reader, or to create a literary work.
What is writing?
An impairment in comprehension and/or use of a spoken, written, and/or other communication symbol system.
What is a language disorder?
Children in what kind of environment benefit from early exposure to reading and print concepts such as familiarity with letters and sounds, as well as exposure to the conventions of printed words which includes skills such as reading from left to right on a page and front to back in a book.
What is a print rich environment?
Instruction that includes instruction in shades of meaning, multiple meanings, relationships between words such as analogies, synonyms/antonyms and categories, and figurative language such as idioms, similes, metaphors.
What is vocabulary instruction?
The rules associated with the use of language in conversation and broader social situations.
What is pragmatics?
A more serious form of writing on a debatable topic.
What is persuasive writing?
Includes listening, understanding, and reading.
What is receptive language?
Instruction that includes instruction in phonics, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension.
What is reading instruction?