Mtel Foundations Of Reading

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Ability Grouping

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Grouping of children with similar needs for instructional purposes. (Do not remain constant throughout the year, but change as the children's needs within them change)

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Alliteration

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Occurs when words begin with the same constant sound. (Peter piper picked a pair of pickled peppers)

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Alphabetic Principle

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The idea that written spellings represent spoken words.

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Anchor Book

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A balanced literacy term for a book that is purposely read repeatedly and used as a part of both the reading and writing workshop.

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Assonance

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Occurs when words begin with the same vowel sound.

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Authentic Assessment

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Assessment activities which reflect the actual workplace, family community, and school curriculum.

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Balanced Literacy Lesson Format

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Format begins with 10-15 minute lesson from teacher to whole class. Then a 30 minute small group lesson. Finally a 10 minute sharing I whole group again.

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Benchmarks

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School, state, or nationally mandated statements of the expectations for student learning and achievement in various content areas.

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Bics-Basic Interpersonal Communication skills

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(ELL term bilingual education)
Learning second language skills and becoming proficient in a second language through face to face interaction-translation through speaking, listening, and viewing.

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Blending

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The process of hearing separate phonemes and being able to merge the together to read the word.

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Fluent Reader

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1. Identify most words automatically
2. Consistently monitor, cross-check, and self correct reading.

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Formal Assessment

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A test or observation of a performance task which is done under controlled and regulated conditions.

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Functional Reading

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The reading of instructions, recipes, coupons, signs, and other documents which we have to read and correctly interpretation in school and society.

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Grade Equivalent/Grade Score

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A score transformed from raw score on a standardized test into the equivalent score earned by an average student in the norming group.

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Graphic Organizers

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Express relationships among various ideas in visual forms.

Sequence, timeline, character traits, fact and opinion, main idea and details, differences and likenesses.

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Guided Reading

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(Key mode of balanced literacy approach) teacher guides the child through silent reading of a text by giving them prompts, target questions, or helping them answer.

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High Frequency

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Words that appear more times in ordinary reading. (In, of, the)
-also called service words
- best known list created by Dolch

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Independent Reading

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A set of time within a literacy block when children read books with 95-100% accuracy on their own.

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Informal Assessment

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Observations of children made under informal conditions. (Kid watching, checklists, and individual child/teacher conversations.)

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Informal Reading Inventory (IRI)

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A series of reading excerpt that can be used to determine a child's reading strength and needs in comprehension and decoding.

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Justified Print

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The positioning on the page so that each line ends at the same margin.

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Kid Watching

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Term used within the balanced literacy approach for the teachers deliberate, detailed, and recorded observations of an individual and class literacy behaviors.

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Kinesthetic

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Activity with tactile learning.

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Language Experience

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Children giving dictation to the teacher who writes their words on a chart or drawing.

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Learning Logs

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Daily records of what students have learned.

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Listening Post

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Sets of headphones attached to a single tape player where children can listen to audiotapes of books.

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Literature Circles

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A group discussion involving four to six children who have read the same work.

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Manipulation

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Moving around or switching sounds within a word to words within a phrase or sentence.

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Meaning Vocabulary

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Words whose meanings children understand and can use.

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Miscue

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An oral reading error made by a child which differs from the actual printed text.

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Miscue Analysis

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Teacher keeps a detailed recording of errors or inaccurate attempts of a child reader during a reading assessment. (Synthetic, semantics, or graphophonemic)

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Monitoring Reading

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Various strategies that children use to monitor their own work.

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Narrative Text

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One of the two basic text structure. The narrative text tells or communicates a story - novels, short stories, plays

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Morpheme

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The smallest units of meaning in a word.
Free morpheme- can stand alone. (Love)
Bound morpheme - must be attached ( ed in loved)

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One to one matching

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Matching one spoken word