Vocabulary
The words and sentences around an unknown word that, along with the reader's background knowledge, help identify it or explain its meaning.
What is context?
What is demonstrating or directly telling; the My Turn phase of instruction.
A speech form or expression that cannot be understood from the meanings of the separate words comprising it, but instead must be learned as a whole. “In the same boat” is an idiom that means two or more people are in the same situation. “As fit as a fiddle” is an idiom that means “very healthy.” Also called figurative expression.
What is idioms
Early success in acquiring reading skills often results in later success in reading because a good reader becomes an even more highly skilled reader, acquiring more vocabulary and background knowledge as a result of reading more; also expressed as “the rich get richer, the poor get poorer.”
What is the Matthew effect?
Visual representations of vocabulary that help students establish relationships among new and old words by having students categorize, label the categories, and discuss concepts related to a target word.
Define figurative meanings
A meaning that is not literal; the meaning is more picturesque, implying something other than what is said on the surface.
Oral expressive vocabulary means using words in speaking so that other people understand you; written expressive vocabulary is communicating meaningfully through writing.
What is expressive vocabulary?
Define keyword method
Method of teaching vocabulary directly that uses visual imagery to help students understand and retain word meanings.
With hypertext, the software designers link designated words, usually indicated by a different text color, to a database. Readers can select the words and bring on-screen the information in the database. Pressing a designated word might link the reader to a definition of the word, to a picture of the word, to a clue for figuring out the word, or to a video of someone describing the word.
What is hypertext
To draw too general a conclusion. For example, if all of the examples used to teach the concept of red are balls, students can draw the conclusion that something has to be a ball to be red.
What is overgeneralize?
Define narrow reading
What is when students read several different texts about the same topic.
Define receptive vocabulary
Oral receptive vocabulary involves understanding the meaning of words when people speak; written receptive language concerns understanding the meaning of words that are read.
The opposite of an example. Vocabulary nonexamples are items or concepts that are not representative of the specified word. When the term ocean is taught, nonexamples might include desert, sky, or land.
What is nonexample?
Define literal meaning
The primary meaning of a word. The actual meaning.
Marilyn Adams’s model of reading describes word recognition as an interaction between orthographic, phonological, meaning, and context processors. The meaning processor focuses on word meanings rather than the letters or sounds.
What is meaning processor