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The process of constructing meaning using both the author's text and the reader's background knowledge for a specific purpose.
What is comprehension?
100
Reading smoothly, quickly, and with expression.
What is fluency?
100
A syllable added to the end of a word to change the word's meaning (e.g. -y in hairy, -ful in careful)
What is a suffix?
100
A category of literature such as science fiction, biography, or historical fiction, or a writing form.
What is genre?
100
A comparison expressed using like or as.
What is a simile?
200
Scoring guides that teachers use to assess students' writing or other work. These guides usually have levels ranging from low to high.
What are rubrics?
200
The ability to orally read sentences expressively, with appropriate phrasing and intonations.
What is prosody?
200
A sound; it is represented in print with slashes (e.g. /s/ and /th/).
What is a phoneme?
200
Students use prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing to develop and refine a composition.
What is the Writing process?
200
The smallest meaningful part of a word; sometimes it;s a word (e.g. cup, hope), sometimes not (e.g. -ly, bi-)
What is a morpheme?
300
A written representation of a sound using one or more letters.
What is a grapheme?
300
A comparison expressed directly, without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
300
Students read leveled books in small-group lessons with teacher support.
What is Guided reading?
300
The distance between a student's actual developmental level and his or her potential developmental level that can be reached with scaffolding.
What is the Zone of Proximal Development?
300
Students' awareness of their own thought and learning process.
What is metacognition?
400
Information from the words or sentences surrounding a word that helps to clarify the word's meaning.
What are context clues?
400
Reading material that a student can read with teacher support.
What is Instructional Reading Level?
400
The origin and history of words; the information enclosed in brackets in dictionary entries.
What is etymology?
400
Activities and materials related to real-world reading and writing are known as this.
What are authentic?
400
A morpheme that is not a word and cannot stand alone (e.g. -s, try-)
What is a bound morpheme?
500
An activity in which students replace words that have been deleted from a text.
What is the cloze procedure?
500
The spelling system is known as this.
What is orthography?
500
Systematic instruction of concepts, strategies, and skills that builds from simple to complex.
What is explicit instruction?
500
A strategy for categorizing and analyzing a student's oral reading errors.
What is a miscue analysis?
500
The varying support a teacher provides to students as they read and write, according to their needs.
What is scaffolding?
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