Mtel Foundations Of Reading

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Alliteration

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The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words.

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Allusion

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A reference in literature to a familiar person, place, thing or event

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Alphabet Principle

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The recognition that phonemes are represented by letters and letter pairs.

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Consonant blend

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Two successive consonants where both sounds are heard

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Decoding

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Translating written language into verbal speech

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Digraph

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Two successive letters that make a single sound

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Diphthong

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Speech sound beginning with one vowel sound and moving to another vowel sound within the same syllable. Ex.: oy in boy

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Encoding

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Translating verbal speech into written language

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Expository

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Writing that is intended to make clear or to explain something

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Figurative Language

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Language that communicates ideas beyond the ordinary or literal meaning of the words

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Fluency

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Automatic word recognition, rapid decoding, checking for meaning

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Formal Assessment

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A test or task using procedures that are carried out under controlled conditions

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Homograph

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Words spelled alike but are different in meaning and derivation or pronunciation ((verb: conduct, noun: conduct)

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Homonym

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Words spelled alike but different in meaning - same pronunciation

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Homophone

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Words pronounced alike but different in meaning or derivation and spelling (to, too, two)

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Imaginative/Literary text

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Fictional writing in story, dramatic or poetic form

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Inference

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conclusion drawn from facts

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Informal Assessment

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Observations and other non-standardized procedures such as running records

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Literacy

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The ability to read, write, speak, and understand words

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Miscue

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An oral reading response that differs from the text and may be analyzed to assess a students reading development

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Onset

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The part of a syllable that precedes the vowel. A consonant or consonant pair

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Percentile

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A score on a scale of 100 showing the percentage of a distribution that is equal to or below it

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Phonemic Awareness

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A specific type of phonological awareness involving the ability to distinguish separate phonemes in a spoken word

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Phonological Awareness

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The awareness that oral language is composed of smaller units, such as spoken words and syllables

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phoneme

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The smallest unit of speech sound that makes a difference in communication (fly has 3 phonemes: /f/-/l/-/i/

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Phonics

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The study of sounds. The understand that the sounds of speech can be represented by separate symbols.

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Rime

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The vowel and any consonant that follow it (in scotch the rime is otch)

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Root word

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A word to which prefixes and suffixes may be added to make other words

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Rubric

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Assessment tool for making scoring decisions; guidelines that distinguish products of different quality

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Running Record

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Written record of a student's oral reading in which a blank paper rather than a copy of the test is used in coding

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Semantic

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Related to meaning

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Synonym

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A word that has a meaning identical with or very similar to another word in the same language

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Syntax

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The way in which words are put together to form constructions such as phrases or sentences
Grammer

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Base words

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English words - will stand alone = free morphemes

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Metacognition

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reading to learn- having knowledge (cognition) and understanding, control over and appropriate use of that knowledge

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scaffolding

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The process in which a teacher provides help to a child then decreases the level of assistance as the child masters the skill or topic - Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)

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Grapheme

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a letter or combination of letters in the written language which represents a meaningful sound (phoneme) in the spoken language

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Syntax

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the rules which govern the grammatical relationship between words and other units within a sentence

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Grammar

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Rules for syntax, inflection and word formation which govern how sentences are formed

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Semantics

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the study of linguistic meaning in a language, including words, phrases and sentences

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Pragmatic (social and cultural system)

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refers to the social and cultural aspects of usage, such as how language varies among different social classes, ethnic groups, and geographic areas