Grammar
Reading
Language Arts
Writing
Phonics
100
A word that names a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
100
This is the process of reading and writing
What is literacy?
100
A complex system for creating meaning through socially shared conventions
What is Language?
100
Steps involved in the production of text, including prewriting, drafting, conferencing, revising, editing and performing
What is the process approach to writing?
100
A word to which affixes are added to create new words
What is a base word or a root word?
200
A word that takes the place of a noun to keep the author from using the same name over and over
What is a pronoun?
200
The ability to read connected text accurately, quickly, and with expression
What is fluency?
200
Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening, Viewing, and Visually Representing
What is the five components of Language Arts?
200
Writing that serves clear, real-life purposes, including greeting cards, and thank-you notes.
What is functional writing?
200
A syllable that ends in a consonant sound, such as the second syllable in ho-tel
What is a closed syllable?
300
A word that modifies verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs; they answer the questions How? Where? When? and Why?
What is an adverb?
300
A philosophy and approach to teaching reading and writing that is rooted in children's own language and that makes use of trade books and authentic reading material
What is Whole Language?
300
Children dictate words and sentences about their experiences, the teacher records the dictation for the children. The text they develop becomes reading material.
What is Language Experience Approach?
300
Strategies for understanding text through the use of graphic representations for categorizing and structuring information.
What is mapping and/or webbing?
300
Two consecutive letters that together represent a single sound - for example oa in boat and ch in chip
What is a digraph?
400
A word that shows the relationship between an object and other words in a sentence
What is a preposition?
400
An instructional materials package designed for teaching reading from kindergarten through sixth (and sometimes eighth) grade; consists of anthologies of reading selections, teachers' editions, skill development workbooks, assessment devices and other ancillary support materials
What is a basal reading program?
400
Listening to a speaker or reader for enjoyment; may include listening to stories, poems etc as a pleasurable activity
What is aesthetic listening?
400
A strategy in which reachers provide children with modeling and support to help them acquire a skill in writing or reading.
What is scaffolding
400
A knowledge that spoken words are made up of sequences of discrete sounds and the ability to manipulate these sounds
What is phonemic awareness?
500
Words that enliven writing by showing strong feelings or emotions; do not have a grammatical connection with the rest of the sentence, and often stand alone.
What is an interjection?
500
A three-tiered instructional delivery model in which all children receive quality, researched-based classroom instruction (Tier One). Children who do not make adequate progress are targeted for more intense instruction (Tier Two), and those who continue to struggle receive additional extensive intervention (Tier Three).
What is Response to Intervention (RtI)?
500
Phonological or sound system of language, syntactic or structural system of language, semantic or meaning system of language, and pragmatic or social and cultural use system of language
What are the four systems or cueing systems of language?
500
A scoring guide that gives the student and teacher a sense of what they should strive for in their writing. It is an evaluation system for a teacher who ranks certain elements on a grid, which then are listed, such as uses capital letters and correct punctuation, writes neatly, stays on topic, or gives details and examples.
What is a rubric (for writing)?
500
The principle that the written language system of English (and other languages) is based on the relationship between spoken sounds and written symbols and that each speech sound has its own graphic counterpart
What is alphabetic principle?
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