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15 Cards in this Set
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Evaluative Comprehension Skills
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The third and highest level of comprehenison. Not only understanding text, but being able to critique it.
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Explicit Instruction
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An instructional strategy that emphasizes group instruction. Alot of teacher-student interactivity.
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Expository Text
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Is intended to teach the reader, to explain and describe, or to convince the reader of a point. Rather than being centered around a plot or a character, expository text is oriented around a subject. Contains little or no dialogue, its primary purpose is to provide facts and opinions.
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Figurative Language
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A tool employed by authors to communicate via simile or metaphor rather than strictly literally.
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Final position
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The end of a word.
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Fluency
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Ability to read smoothly with good comprehension. The student has a large sight word, has a number of decoding skills, and reads with expression.
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Formal Assessment
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A test that must be administered in a particular way under specific conditions.
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Frustration level
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Reading level at which the student cannot accurately recognize or comprehend more than 70% of the text.
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Graphophonic Cues
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Process of sounding out a word. The use of letter sound correspondence to identify unknown words in a text.
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Guided Reading
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Enables a teacher and a small group of children to read their way through a book, stopping frequently to question and discuss the text.
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High Frequency Words
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The words that appear most often in printed materials.
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Implicit Instruction
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Teaching that uses nondirective suggestions and tacit implications in place of explicit direction or modeling.
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Independent Level
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The reading level at which the student can accurately recognize and comprehend words well enough that no teacher quidance is required.
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Independent Reading
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Reading that is done alone, without assistance from the teacher or from other learners.
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Inflectional Endings
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Sounds that are added to words to indicate tense, possession, number or comparison.
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