Foundations Of Reading Mtel

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Structural Analysis

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using meaningful parts of the words such as prefixes, suffixes, inflectional ednings, roots and bases to identify words

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Root Words

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words from which other words are derived

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Base Words

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meaningful linguistic units that can stand alone and contain no smaller meaningful parts (free morphemes)

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Prefixes

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meanings that can be added to the beginnings of base words to change their meaning

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Inflectional Endings

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word parts that can be added to the ends of root words to change their case, gender, number, tense, or form

Boys= possessive case
stewardess= gender
Trees= number
Walked= tense
Funiest= form

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Compound Words

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Two or more smaller words. May or may not be hyphenated

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Contractions

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Shortened forms of two words in which a letter or letters have been replaced by an apostrophe

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Running Record

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Written record of a student's oral reading

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Miscue Analysis

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Analyzing a student's reading miscues in order to infer which strategies a student is or not using

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Consonant

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are not vowels
are known for their noise and the way in which air is constricted as it is stopped and released for forced through the vocal tract, mouth, teeth, and lips

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Vowel

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a speech sound produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open voal tract

a,e,i,o, u

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Consonant Blends

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made of two or three letter sequences that are blended together

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Consonant Dipgraph

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two letters that represent one sound

sh, ch, th, wh

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Phoneme

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the smallest unit of speech that distinguishes one word from another

t of tug
r of rug

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Diphthong

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a complex speech sound beginning with one vowel sound and moving to another within the same syllable

boy-oy
noise- oi

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Grappheme

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a written or printed symbol representing a phoneme

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Onset

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a single syllable or word is the initial consonant sound

onset of sun is s
onset of slide is sl

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rimes

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a unit composed of the vowel and any following consonant with a syllable

rime in tag- ag

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Bound Morphemes

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ing, er

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Phonics

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speech sounds associated with with printed symbols

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phonemic awareness

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understanding that speech consist of a series of small sound units

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Morpheme

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the smallest unit of meaning in a language

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Aphabetic Principle

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the concept that letters represent speech sounds

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Contet Clues

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clues to word meanings or pronunciation found in the surrounding words or sentences

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Homopraphs

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words that have identical spellings but sound different and have different meanings

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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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Semantic Map

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graphic representation of relationships among words and phrases in written material

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Informal Reading Inventory (IRI)

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an informal instrument designed to help teachers determine a child's independent, instructional, frustration, and capacity levels.

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Idioms

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a group of words that has meaning different from that of the sum of the meanings of the individual words

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Literal Comprehension

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understanding of ideas that are directly stated

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Fluency

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the ability to read words of connected text smoothly and without significant word recognition problems

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Book Handling Skills

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Building print awareness by getting books into a students hands

- Grasp book and put it in the mouth
- Helps to turn the page or does it ackwardly
- Turns it right side up

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Decoding

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the process of translating written language into verbal speech sounds

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Syntactic Cues

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clues derived from the word order in sentences

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Explict Instruction

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Directed, methodical, or planned

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Implict Instruction

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Not directed or implied

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Expository Text

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Presenting and organizing information in whatever way suits the information and the purpose

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Reliability

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Whether the test results are likely to be repeated with a similar examinee test group

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Validity

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Whether the test questions effectively measure their specified content

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Objective

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Facts