Structural Analysis
the smallest unit of meaning
What is a morpheme?
a graphic organizer that categorizes information
What is a semantic map?
a reference to people, places or literary works
What is literary allusion?
What is skim?
3 things to look for in an IRI
What are independent, instructional, and frustration levels?
words that are spelled the same but have different meanings
What is a homograph?
reading a variety of genre
What is wide reading?
comprehension of what is directly stated in the text.
What is literal comprehension?
When you read quickly to find a specific piece of information
What is scan?
test results are consistent over successive administrations
What is reliability?
-ed; -ing
What are inflectional endings?
What is oral vocabulary?
Teacher reads aloud an excerpt of complex text, students reread smaller parts and answer text-dependent questions.
What is close reading?
the goal of reading
What is comprehension?
a test that compares students to each other
What is norm-referenced?
prefixes and suffixes
What are affixes?
a phrase that doesn't mean what it literally says
What is an idiom?
the reader must infer based on what is in the text
What is inferential comprehension>
a text structure
What is description, cause and effect, compare and contrast, cause and effect, and sequence?
a test measures what it says it measures
What is validity?
when a readers uses the words in the passage to support word identification
What is a context clue?
Beginning readers have trouble ______________ words not in their oral vocabulary.
What is decoding?
thinking about your thinking
What is metacognition?
visual/written supports an author adds to nonfiction text to support comprehension
What are text features?
Students are measured against criteria