Language Arts

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When students are involved in small group peer-led discussions of concepts based on reading experiences involving multiple copies of informational text they are participating in....

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Idea Circle

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A syllable in which nothing follows the vowel and the vowel is long

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Open Syllable

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A syllable in which the vowel is followed by consonant and the vowel is sort.

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Closed Syllable

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The purpose of this type of writing is to create a context in which the students discover, analyze, and synthesize ideas through the process of writing. (more formal)

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Essay Writing

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During this writing strategy, students identify the topic, explain how the reading passage begins, present ideas from the middle of the passage and present ideas from the closing

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Four-Step Summary

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A graphic organizer with shape- bound words or phrases radiating from a central figure that represents the main idea or concepts

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Concept Map

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A type of journal writing with two focuses-What it is? and What does it mean to me?

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Double Entry Journal

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A visual display consisting of shape-bound text and arrows that show direction or sequence of a concept, procedure or event

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Flow Diagram

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A writing strategy used to develop the main idea or drawing conclusions for a specific passage. Students consolidate their thoughts about the passage using 20 words or less

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GIST

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Visual displays that help students understand, summarize, and synthesize the information from texts or other sources

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Graphic Organizer

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A writing strategy incorporating guided reading ans summarizing. Students preview a passage and develop headings for the passage. Then they read the passage and add additional details about each heading

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GRASP

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Teaching writing as a process with specific steps all focusing on a final product

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Learning to Write

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An arrangement of words or phrases in a table format to be read both horizontally and vertically to show relationships

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Matrix

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Refers to students recording notes from written materials

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Notemaking

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Refers to students written notes from an activity, lecture, or class discussion

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Note taking

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The interaction between the reader and the text

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Reader Response Theory

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A visual display of information most frequently used to categorize or classify information in which supporting categories branch off from a general concept

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Tree Diagram

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Writing that does not produce a process writing piece. This brief writing process is meant to be catalyst for furthering student learning

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Writing to Learn

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RAFT, Admit/Entry slips, Exit Slips, and Found Poems

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Writing to learn strategies

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A metacognitive process that allows student to "hear" what goes on inside the head of a fluent reader. This goal of think-aloud is to transfer the responsibility of thinking about ones thinking to the reader.

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Think-aloud

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Two letters that stand for a single phoneme

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Digraph

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A letter or combination of letters that represents a phoneme

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Grapheme

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Any syllable that ends with a consonant phoneme

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Close Syllable

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A method in which basic phonetics, the study of human speech sounds, is used to teach beginning reading

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Phonics

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The smallest sound unit of a language that distinguishes one word from another

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Phoneme

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A letter sequence comprised of a vowel grapheme and an ending consonant grapheme

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Phonogram

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A single vowel sound made up of a blend of two vowel sounds in immediate sequence and pronounced in one syllable

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Diphthong

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Sounds in a syllable represented by two or more letters that are blended together without losing their own identities

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Consonant Blend

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A unit of pronunciation that consists of a vowel alone or a vowel with one or more consonants

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Syllable

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The symbol placed over a vowel letter to show it is pronounced as a long sound

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Macron

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What are the four roles of the idea circle?

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Summarizer
Word Wizard
Concept Connector
Illustrator

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Consists of a process of stages... prewriting, draft, peer review, revising, editing, final, publishing

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Learning to Write

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Not a process. It is an opportunity for students to recall, clarify, and question what they know and what they still wonder about. Getting them to think about and to find the words to explain what they are learning.

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Writing to Learn

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concerned with when and why something is done... asks when or why?

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Conditional knowledge

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recall specific information, students must understand... asks how?

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Procedural Knowledge

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focuses on things that we know such as, labels, names, facts. and lists... asks what?

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Declarative Knowledge