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35 Cards in this Set
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Ability Grouping |
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
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