Words
Words starting with the same letter.
Alliterates
Method of communication which can vary depending on outside factors.
Language
Earliest age that students are able to understand the meaning of a text.
Early Reader.
This provides consistent benchmarks for all students used to convey the disciplinary literacy principle that each discipline has a specific approach to literacy knowing and learning.
Common Core State Standards (CCSS)
Teaching practices for reading that have been proven effective in improving student’s reading.
Best Practices
Process of understanding visual symbols with the use of visual media.
Viewing
Reading to enjoy the experience of reading.
Aesthetic (Reading)
Someone who can read with proper speed, accuracy, and expression.
Fluent Reader
A reading approach where the large view works down to the specific topics and parts.
Top-Down Approach
The ability to read, write, and comprehend vocabulary and other academic necessities in a competent way
Academic Literacy
The branch of language that deals with the statutes of sounds: How words sound.
Phonology
A reader who uses the strategies, and possesses the skills and reading level appropriate for their grade level.
Proficient Reader
Independent literacy activities that foster positive attitudes and interests as well as good literacy habits.
Recreational Literacy
This is when reading is broken into smaller, basic steps and then expanded from there.
Bottom-Up Approach
The process of turning thoughts into speech.
Language Production
The study of the form of words.
Morphology
Someone who is interested in reading but can’t yet read them independently.
Emergent Ready
Knowledge of how to actively participate and initiate change in one's community and in the whole of society.
Civic Literacy
Rules related to the use of language in social or cultural contexts.
Pragmatic Cue System
Someone who is interested in reading but can’t yet read them independently.
Emergent Reader
The component of language concerned with the order of words and their placement in phrases and sentences.
Syntax
The branch of linguistics and language concerned with meaning:The meaning of a word, phrase, sentence, or text.
Semantics
Teaching literacy that is geared toward the disciplines of English, mathematics, sciences, and fine arts.
Disciplinary Literacy
Rules related to the use of information from a reader's prior knowledge or personal association with content.
Schematic Cue System
A cognitive and social practice which works with the desire to create, read, comprehend, critique, and write about a specific content discipline; “reading to learn.”
Content-Area Literacy