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