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n. 1. An accepted practice in a spoken or written language. 2. An accepted way of creating an effect, as the soliloquy in drama, the flashback in fiction. 3. A set of rules for group behavior; custom.
What is Mechanics/Conventions
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1. The growth of a person’s stock of known words and meanings. 2. the teaching-learning principles and practices that lead to such growth, as comparing and classifying word meanings, using context, analyzing word roots and affixes, etc.
What is Vocabulary Development
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A comprehension teaching strategy, mostly used during the reading process, in which the chief elements are predication and verification.
What is DR/TA Directed Reading /Thinking Activity
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This teaching strategy helps students become familiar with a new word by discussing it before it is encountered in text. It also trains students in how to use context to decipher the meaning of an unknown word. With this strategy the teacher puts the complete sentence from the upcoming text on the board which contains the targeted new word.
What is TVC (Teaching Vocabulary in Context)
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Vocabulary instruction on specific words that develops a deep level of understanding (established level) in students.
What is In-depth Vocabulary Instruction
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A vocabulary strategy wherein students select which words they want to learn. Students nominate words from their reading and vote as a group as to whether or not the words should be added to their group (or class) list. (Explained in the State Study Guide)
What is VSS Vocabulary Self-Collection Strategy
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A comparison of two things that are unlike, usually using the words like or as, as “O my love is like a red, red rose.”
What is Simile
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With this strategy, the teacher makes a poster to put up in the room for students to refer to when they come across an unknown word. The steps on the poster help a student independently go through four steps to figure out the word. First, the student tries to figure out the word’s meaning from external context clues. Then the student looks at the word’s structure for clues. Next, the student says the word aloud in different ways to see if it sounds familiar. Finally, if nothing else has worked, the student goes to an outside reference for help.
What is CSSR (Context, Structure, Sound, Reference)
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An approach for developing writing skills that looks at six (plus one; presentation) different aspects of writing to help children understand and develop writing skills beyond simple mechanics. The six traits are: content, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions. (http://www.nwrel.org/assessment/department.php?d=1)
What is Six-trait Writing
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A strategy to establish a clear purpose for reading to involve students in active comprehension through group interactions. Learners make predictions before the text is read and then stop at preplanned points in the text to discuss predictions and evidence gathered during reading that proves or disproves the predictions. Children can be trained in comprehension through this method as they listen to a story before they can read independently.
What is DL/TA Directed Listening/Thinking Activity
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The study of the history and development of the structures and meanings of words; derivation.
What is Etymology
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1) Oral verbalization. 2) In literacy instruction, “a metacognitive technique or strategy in which the teacher verbalizes aloud while reading a selection orally, thus modeling the process of comprehension.
What is Think-Aloud
300
This strategy helps students who are having a difficult time grouping words that go together in phrases. It helps students get past word by word, expressionless oral reading. The teacher marks the text to show which phrases of words should be together by putting lines between phrases.
What is Phrase-Cued Text
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The various patterns of ideas that are embedded in the organization of text. Common patterns of text structure are expository, cause- effect, comparison-contrast, problem-solution, description, and sequence.
What is Text Structure
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In text analysis, a formal device or grammar used for specifying relations among episodes in a story and to formulate rules for generating other stories.
What is Story Grammar
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The level of expertise required to read a particular text. For example, a text judged to be readable by a 1st grader would have easier vocabulary, less complex sentence structure, and simpler, more explicit meanings than a text judged to be readable by a 5th grader.
What is Text Readability
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1. A group of words sharing a common phonic element, as /it/ spelled ite in bite/ kite/ despite. 2. A group of words sharing the same root or base, as phon- in phonemic phonation, telephone.
What is Word Family
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A comprehension strategy designed to train students’ minds to utilize metacognitive strategies while they read to better understand and retain information.
What is Survey-Question-Read-Recite-Review (SQ3R)
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1) A step-by-step process for presenting a reading lesson; developmental reading lesson, especially in the content fields. 2) A reading lesson plan involving: a. preparation and motivation for reading, b. silent reading, c. vocabulary and skills development, d. silent or oral rereading, e. follow-up or culminating activities. Note: The directed reading activity can take various forms, but the underlying concept remains the same. In the pre-reading stage, students set their own purposes for reading by making predictions; during reading they verify their predictions; and in the post reading discussion stage they check their verifications.
What is DRA Direct Reading Activity
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1) An approach to language learning in which students’ oral compositions are transcribed and used as materials of instruction for reading, writing, speaking, and listening; experience approach. 2) A curriculum that emphasizes the interrelationship of such modes of language experience.
What is Language Experience Approach (LEA)
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The many aspects of the complex act of producing a written communication; specifically, planning or prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing.
What is Writing Process
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Reading instruction in which the teacher provides the structure and purpose for reading and the responding to the material read. Note: Most basal reading programs have guided reading lessons.
What is Guided Reading
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1. One of two or more words in a language that have highly similar meanings, as sadness/ grief; sorrow etc. 2. A word used in a figurative sense, as the deep for water, a heel for an untrustworthy person, etc.
What is Synonym
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A pre-reading/writing activity that makes use of key concepts from a story to develop the reader’s own story or impressions of how these key concepts might fit together (McGinley & Denner, 1987). The procedure is based upon the belief that a major goal of a pre-reading activity is to have the reader build anticipatory models that are confirmed or modified as the reader encounters the actual text. (“Today we’re going to make up what we think this story could be about.”)
What is Story Impressions
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Flashcards designed to help students review vocabulary words.
What is Vocabulary Word Cards
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