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A category of literature, such as folklore, science fiction, biography, or historical fiction, or a writing form.
What is genre
100
A guide listing specific criteria for evaluating children's work; it includes levels of achievement and is scored numerically.
What is a rubric?
100
A new word formed with two or more words that has its own meaning.
What is a compound word?
100
Reading and writing are considered this.
What is literacy?
100
Words that mean nearly the same thing (e.g. road-street)
What is a synonym?
200
Words that sound alike but are spelled differently (e.g. there-their-they're)
What is a homophone? Or what is a homonym?
200
A syllable added to the beginning of a word to change the word's meaning (e.g. re in reread.)
What is a prefix?
200
A speech sound characterized by friction or stoppage of the airflow as it passes through the vocal tract; usually any letter except the vowels.
What is a consonant?
200
A child's knowledge or previous experiences about a topic.
What is background knowledge?
200
The structure of language; that is, how words combine to form sentences.
What is grammar?
300
Words that are critical to understanding what's taught at school, including school-related words and directions (e.g. explain, compare, and list), more sophisticated terms for familiar words, and content-specific words.
What is Academic vocabulary?
300
Literary devices and display conventions that authors use to achieve particular effects in their writing, such as point of view, metaphors, rhyme, and headings.
What are text features?
300
An approach to measuring children's learning that's process-oriented, ongoing and positive. The goal is to document children's growth, provide feedback, modify instruction when needed, and plan for future instruction.
What is assessment?
300
Signs, labels, and other print found in the community.
What is environmental print?
300
Another name for nonfiction text.
What is expository text?
400
A common English word, usually a word among the 100 or 300 most common words (e.g. the, see, go with)
What is a high-frequency word?
400
A sound; it's represented in print with slashes (e.g. /s/ and /th/.
What is a phoneme?
400
A Piagetian process in which learners create schemas because of new information or experiences.
What is accommodation?
400
Basic understandings about the way print works, including the direction of print, spacing, punctuation, letters, and words.
What is concepts about print?
400
Children's awareness of their own thought and learning process.
What is metacognition?
500
Conventions of writing, including spelling, capitalization, punctuation and grammar.
What are mechanics?
500
The distance between a child's actual developmental level and his or her potential level that can be reached with teacher scaffolding.
What is the Zone of Proximal Development?
500
Predictable relationships between phonemes and graphemes.
What are phonics?
500
Reading textbooks that are leveled according to grade. They are commercially made.
What basal readers?
500
The ability to identify and manipulate phonemes, onsets and rimes, and syllables;
What is phonological awareness?