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Teachers use this to teach skills in a planned, sequential order.
What is explicit instruction?
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A procedure that deepens students' comprehension of challenging texts through repeated readings of a brief text passage and analysis of individual words and sentences.
What is Close Reading?
100
An ongoing process to monitor growth, diagnose problems, and improve learning.
What is Assessment?
100
The language skills used in everyday social situations; Thy are not cognitively demanding.
What is Basic Interpersonal Communicative Skills (BICS)?
100
Sound-symbol relationships
What is graphophonemic?
200
Knowledge is organized into cognitive structures and describes how students learn
What is schema/schema theory?
200
Prereading, Reading, Responding, Exploring, and Applying
What is the Reading Process?
200
The level of reading material that's too difficult for students to read successfully; accuracy level is less than 90%.
What is Frustration Reading Level?
200
The formal academic language that's needed for school success.  It's the language used in classrooms, in books, and on tests and it is cognitively demanding.
What is Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency (CALP)?
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The ability to manipulate the sounds in words orally.
What is phonemic awareness?
300
The level between students actual development and their potential development.
What is the Zone of Proximal Development?
300
Prewriting, Drafting, Revising, Editing, Publishing
What is the Writing Process?
300
The level of reading material that students can read with teacher support and instruction with 90-94% accuracy.
What is Instructional Reading Level?
300
In this approach, teachers do shared reading, children dictate words and sentences about their experiences, and the teacher writes down what the children say, and the text they develop becomes the reading material.
What is the Language Experience Approach (LEA)?
300
A strategy for segmenting sounds in a word that involves drawing a box to represent each sound.
What is Elkonin boxes?
400
The rules governing how words are combined in sentences
What is grammar?
400
The language tools that writers use to convey meaning effectively, including imagery, humor, alliteration, sentence structure, and viewpoint.
What is Writer's Craft?
400
The level of reading material that students can read independently with high comprehension and an accuracy level of 95-100%.
What is Independent Reading Level?
400
Children learn to combine words into different types of sentences and to use irregular verb forms, pronouns, and plural markers and other inflectional endings.
What is syntax?
400
The assumption underlying alphabetical language systems that each sound has a corresponding graphic representation.
What is the alphabetic principle?
500
The ability to use reading and writing for a variety of tasks at school and outside of school.
What is Literacy?
500
The mechanics of writing, including spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and grammar.
What is Conventions?
500
An individually administered reading test composed of word lists and graded passages that are used to determine students' independent, instructional, and frustrations levels and listening capacity levels.
What is Informal Reading Inventory (IRI)?
500
Children learn to use language socially- to carry on a conversation, tell stories, and use social conventions, including "please" and "thank you".
What is pragmatics?
500
The origin and history of words; the etymological information is enclosed in brackets in dictionary entries.
What is etymology?