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50 Cards in this Set
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Alphabetic Principle
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The correspondence between letters (graphemes) and sounds (phnemes).
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Belief System
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A teachers informed philosophy of reading and learning to read.
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Best Practice
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A Multiple perspective approach in planing and enacting literacy instruction in the classroom.
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Bottom-Up Model
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A type of reading model that assumes that the process of translating print to meaning begins with the printed word and is initiated by decoding graphic symbols into sound. (Phonetic and convention based.)
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Constructivism
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Learning theory associated with Jean Piaget that describes meaning-making as cognitively constructing knowledge by using prior knowledge and experience in interaction with the environment.
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Decoding
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The conscious or automatic processing and translating of the printed word into speech.
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Explicit
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Based on stated information
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Graphophonemic Cues
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Letter-sound information that readers process during reading.
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Implicit
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Based on unstated assumptions in conjunction with given information
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Interactive Model
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A type of reading model that assumes that translating print to meaning involves using both prior knowledge and print and that the process is initiated by the reader making predictions about meaning and/or decoding graphic symbols.
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literary coach
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An individual who provides professional development opportunities and resources. In class coaching and support provide a variety of professional development activities while in a non evaluative role.
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Metacognition
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Awareness of one's won cognitive processes, including task knowledge and self-monitoring of activity.
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New literacies
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The knowledge, skills, strategies, and dispositions needed to use and adapt to the constantly changing information and communication technologies.
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Orthographic Knowledge
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Knowledge of common letter patterns that skilled readers use rapidly and accurately to associate with sounds
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Professional Knowledge
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Knowledge acquired from an ongoing study of the practice of teaching.
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Psycholinguistics
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The study of the mental faculties involved in acting on and interacting with written language in an effort to make sense of a text.
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Schemeta
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Mental frame works that humans use to organize and construct meaning
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Semantic cues
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The prior knowledge and experience that readers bring to a reading situation.
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sociolinguistics
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The study of the everyday functions of language and how interactions with others and with the environment aid language comprehension and learning.
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Syntactic Cues
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Grammatical information in a text that readers process, along with graphophonemic and semantic information, to construct meaning.
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Top down model
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A type of reading model that assumes that the construction of textual meaning depends on the prior readers knowledge and experience. (whole language based.)
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Basal reading approach
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A major approach to reading that occupies the central and broadest position on the instructional continuum. Built on scope and sequence foundations and traditionally associated with bottom-up theory, basal programs have been modified in recent years with the inclusion of language experience and literature activities.
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Explicit strategy instruction
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Instruction that makes clear the what, why when, and how of skill and strategy use.
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instructional scaffolding
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Providing enough instructional guidance and support for students so that they will be successful in their use of reading strategies.
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integrated language arts approach
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An instructional approach in which reading, writing, listening, speaking, and viewing activities are connected through the use of literature.
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language experience approach
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A major approach to reading, located on the holistic side of the instructional continuum, tied closely to interactive or top-down theory. Often considered a beginning reading approach, connectections between reading and writing are becoming more prevalent in the classrooms
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Language experience approach
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A major approach to reading located on the holistic side of teh instructional continuum, tied closely to interacitve or top-down theory. Often considered a begining reading approach, connections between reading and writing are becoming more prevalent in classrooms
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Literature based instruction
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A major approach to reading that encourages students to select their own trade books, with the sessions followed by teacher student conferences at which students may be asked to read aloud from their selections; used by teachers who want to provide for individual student differences in reading abilities while focusing on meaning, interest, and enjoyment.
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technology based instruction
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An instructional approach that utilizes comptuters and their many capabilities.
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whole language
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A theoretical perspective that focuses on the integration of all the language arts- reading, writing, speaking, and listening to create child responsive environments for learing that are supported by literature based instruction.
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book talks
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Discussion opportunities for children to engage in converstations about their responses to reading books from calss core study, reading workshops, or literature circles.
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community of readers
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The conceptualization of children, in alliance with thier frineds and teacher working together in classrooms where school reading imitates adult reading; an effect created by literaturebased reading programs.
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core books
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Collection of books that forms the nucleus of a school reading program at each grade level; usually selected by a curricullum committee.
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free response
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Active involvement or participation in reading through discussion or writing that includes inferential, evaluativem and analytic thinking about a book based on the reader's response.
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literature based reading program
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Reading program based on instructional practices and student activities using literature books novels short stories magazines plays and poems that have not been rewritten for instructional purposes.
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literature circles
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Discussion or study group based on a collaborative strategy involving self-selection of books for reading; each group consists of students who indepentenly selected the same book
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literature journals
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Journal that invites readers to respond to literary texts; less structured than reading logs and other journals
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literature units
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A lesson organized around book collections featuring unifying elements such as genre, author, or conceptional theme.
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read aloud
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Generally a group event in which a book or literature is read orally.
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reading workshops
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Method introduced by Nancie Atwell for integrating the language arts around literature through an organiztional framework that allows readers to demonstrate reading strategies by responding to books and sharing meaning with their peers.
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storytelling
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The act of telling a story orally without the use of text.
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thematic instruction
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Another name for literature units
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anthologies
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Bound collection of stories and poems in reading programs
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differentiating instruction
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adapting teaching for all learners to meet individual needs
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instructional aids
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Charts, workbooks, skill packs, cards, games and other devices that accompany a basal reading program.
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levels
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Sequential arrangements of readers, teachers editions, and ancillary materials for each grade level in basal reading programs.
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reinforcement
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Excercises used to reinforce cement learning in basal programs
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scope and sequence
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General plan in basal reading program for the introduction of skills in sequential or vertical arragement.
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skill building
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The introduction repetition and reinforcement of skills at all levels of basal reading programs
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vocabulary development
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Introduction and repetition of words fro reinforcement in basal reading programs.
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