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Emergent literacy
a developing awareness of the interrelatedness of oral and written language
Phonemic awareness
an understanding that speech consists of a series of small sound units
Scaffolding
offering support through modeling or feedback and then withdrawing support gradually as the learner gains competence.
Sight words
words that a person recognizes immediately, without having to resort to analysis
Basal reader series
a coordinated, graded set of textbooks, teachers guides, and supplementary materials
Direct reading activity (DRA)
a strategy in which detailed lesson plans are followed to teach the reading of stories in basal readers.
Directed reading thinking activity (DRTA)
a general plan for directing the reading of content area reading selections or basal reader stories and for encouraging children to think as the read, to predict, and to check their predictions.
Linguists
scientists who study human speech
Alphabetic principle
the concept that letters represent speech sounds
cloze procedure
omitting words from witten material and leaving blanks in their place for students to fill in, for one reason, to work on use of content clues
Homographs
words that have identical spellings but sound different and have different meanings.
Phonemic awareness
the awareness that speech is composed of separate sounds
Semantic clues
clues to the meaning of words or phrases.
Sight words
words a person recognizes immediately, without having to resort to analysis
Caldecott Award
an annual award for excellence in illustration
Allusion
an indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or event considered to be known to the reader
Personification
giving the attibutes of a person to an inanimate object o abstract idea
Schema
a preexisiting knowledge structure that has been developed about a thing, person, or idea.
Simile
a comparison using like or as
Metacognition
a person's knowledge of the functioning of his or her own mind and his or her conscious efforts to monitor or control this functioning.
SQ3R
a study method consisting of five steps: survey, question, read, recite, and review.
Directed reading thinking activity (DRTA)
a general plan for directing the reading of content area reading selections or basal reader stories and for encouraging children to think as they read, to predict, and to check their predictions
Interactive theories
theories that depict reading as a combination of reader-based and text-based proessing
metacognitive strategies
techniques for thinking about and monitoring one's own thought processes
phoneme
the smallest unit of sound in a language
schemata
preexisting clusters of information that people have developed about things, places, or ideas
semantic cues
meaning clues
syntactic clues
clues to word recognition and meaning found in the syntax of the sentence.
Newbery Award
an annual award for the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children
frustration level
a level of reading difficulty with which a reader is unable to cope