Harry Potter
This is the approximate number of words most children acquire by age five.
10,000
This type of text exposes students to the highest frequency of new, unique vocabulary.
Informational/Expository
This type of vocabulary is the largest of the four: speaking, writing, listening, or reading.
Listening
A child learning the meaning of new words simply through everyday conversation is demonstrating this type of vocabulary learning.
Indirect Vocabulary Learning
According to the text, this is the simplest method for conducting a diagnostic vocabulary assessment.
Flashcards
This type of reading context mentions a new word but provides no clues to help determine its meaning.
Nondirective context
These two words—dark and light—belong to this relationship category in vocabulary study.
Antonyms
Vocabulary that appears frequently in texts or represents key ideas and concepts is known by this name.
Core Vocabulary
Story grammar questioning, story grammar parsing, and oral retellings all assess this specific component of reading comprehension.
Text features and structure
This term refers to the rule system, elements, and sequencing that make up narrative structure.
Story grammar
These four components interact to influence reading comprehension.
the reader, the text, the activity, and the situational context
This instructional approach aims to gradually shift responsibility for strategy use from teacher to student.
Scaffolding
This term refers to monitoring one’s own understanding while reading and taking corrective action when needed.
Metacognition
Encouraging a student to take on increasingly difficult texts builds this “C” of motivation.
Challenge
Another name for the gradual release of responsibility model.
Scaffolding
This is the state of writing where children begin mixing phonetic and conventional spelling.
Prephonemic
Descriptive and clear language that paints a picture in the reader’s mind is typically found in this stage of the writing process.
Drafting Stage
Students actively prewriting, drafting, and revising are working within this phase of the writing workshop.
Workshop activities
This phase of the writing workshop involves whole-class conversations and sharing.
Publishing
This is when students should begin making entries in their writer’s notebooks
Weeks 2-3
Children begin using letters to represent words in this stage of writing development.
Early Phonemic Stage
Teachers should spend this amount of daily instructional time teaching writing strategies and allowing students to practice them.
60 Minutes
This is NOT considered a true stage of writing development: scribbling/drawing, prephonemic, letter-naming, or motor refinement.
Motor refinement
This stage of writing development includes children’s earliest attempts to form words using letters.
Early phonemic stage
These are Mrs. McLendon's peacocks names.
Penny and Penguin (P-Diddy died)