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Academic Language
oral, written, auditory, and visual language proficiency required to learn effectively in schools and academic programs—i.e., it’s the language used in classroom lessons, books, tests, and assignments, and it’s the language that students are expected to learn and achieve fluency in
Bias
tendency to prefer one person or thing to another, and to favor that person or thing
Decodable Words
a type of text used in beginning reading instruction; carefully sequenced to progressively incorporate words that are consistent with the letter–sound relationships that have been taught to the new reader.
Editing
focus on making your text more readable by assessing clarity, style, and citations
Fluency
ability to read with speed, accuracy, and proper instruction
Accuracy
the quality or state of being correct or precis
Blending
the ability to join speech sounds together to make words, the skill of joining individual speech sounds (phonemes) together to make a word.
Decoding
ability to apply your knowledge of letter-sound relationships, including knowledge of letter patterns, to correctly pronounce written words
Eligibility Category or Classification
refers to special education, being eligible for an IEP based on a mental or bheavioral disbaility measured using specific criteria, varies across state
books that share a certain style, form or content
Alliteration
the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
Check for Understanding
the teacher continually verifying that students are learning what is being taught while it is being taught
Dewey Decimal System
a classification system used by libraries to arrange books via subject
Evidence-based
is the idea that occupational practices ought to be based on scientific evidence
Grammar
rules of a language governing the sounds, words, sentences, and other elements, as well as their combination and interpretation
Alphabet Knowledge
recognizing, naming, writing, and identifying the sounds of the letters in the English alphabet
Cause and Effect
cause is the thing that makes other things happen. Effect refers to what results. It is what happened next in the text that results from a preceding cause
Drafting
a strategy that improves comprehension by reading and rereading a text for multiple purposes
Executive Functioning
set of mental processes that helps us connect past experience with present action
Grapheme
the smallest unit (such as a letter or digraph) of a writing system
Alphabetic Principle
the idea that letters and letter patterns represent the sounds of spoken language
Cognitive Processing
a series of cognitive operations carried out in the creation and manipulation of mental representations of information
Dyslexia
a general term for disorders that involve difficulty in learning to read or interpret words, letters, and other symbols, but that do not affect general intelligence
Explicit Instruction
teacher-led teaching method, educator gives clear, guided instruction
Haiku
a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, five traditionally evoking images of the natural world