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Lit 313
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Literature
Undergraduate 3
12/04/2012

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Automaticity
Definition
Identifying words accurately and quickly.
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Basal readers
Definition
Reading textbooks that are leveled according to grade.
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Cloze activity
Definition
An activity in which students replace words that have been deleted from a text.
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Concepts about Print
Definition
Basic understandings about the way print works, including the direction of print, spacing, punctuation, letters, and words.
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Cueing systems
Definition
The phonological, semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic information that students rely on as they read.
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Decoding
Definition
Using word-identification strategies to pronounce and attach meaning to an unfamiliar word.
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Differentiated Instruction
Definition
Procedures for assisting students in learning, providing options, challenging students, and matching books to students to maximize their learning.
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Emergent Literacy
Definition
Children’s early reading and writing development before conventional reading and writing.
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Environmental Print
Definition
Signs, labels, and other print found in the community.
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Expository Text
Definition
Nonfiction.
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Fluency
Definition
Reading smoothly, quickly, and with expression.
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Frustration Level
Definition
The level of reading material that is too difficult for a student to read successfully.
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Guided Reading
Definition
Students work in small groups to read as independently as possible a text selected and introduced by the teacher.
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High Frequency Word
Definition
A common English word, usually a word among the 100 or 300 most common words.
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Independent Reading Level
Definition
The level of reading material that a student can read independently with high comprehension and an accuracy level of 95-100%.
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Instructional Reading Level
Definition
The level of reading material that a student can read with teacher support and instruction with 90-94% accuracy.
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Interactive Writing
Definition
A writing activity in which students and the teacher write a text together, with the students taking turns to do most of the writing themselves.
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Invented Spelling
Definition
Students’ attempts to spell words that reflect their developing knowledge about the spelling system.
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Metacognition
Definition
Students’ awareness of their own thought and learning processes.
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Onset
Definition
The part of a syllable (or one-syllable word) that come before the vowel (e.g., str in string).
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Phoneme
Definition
A sound; it is represented in print with slashes (e.g., /s/ and /th/).
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Phonemic Awareness
Definition
The ability to manipulate the sounds in words orally.
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Phonics
Definition
Predictable relationships between phonemes and graphemes.
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Phonics Instruction
Definition
Teaching the relationships between letters and sounds and how to use them to read and spell words.
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Pre-reading
Definition
The first stage of the reading process, in which readers activate background knowledge, set purposes, and make plans for reading.
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Prosody
Definition
The ability to orally read sentences expressively, with appropriate phrasing and intonation.
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Reading Stage
Definition
The second stage of the reading process, in which readers read the text for the first time using independent reading, shared reading, or guided reading, or by listening to it read aloud.
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Reading Workshop
Definition
An approach in which students read self-selected texts independently.
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Rime
Definition
The part of a syllable (or one-syllable word) that begins with the vowel (e.g ing in string)
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Scaffolding
Definition
The support a teacher provides to students as they read and write.
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Semantics
Definition
The meaning system of language.
Term
Shared Reading
Definition
The teacher reads a book aloud with a group of children as they follow along in the text, often using a big book.
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Word families
Definition
Groups of words that rhyme (e.g., ball, call, fall, doll)
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Word Sort
Definition
A word-study activity in which students group words into categories.
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Word Wall
Definition
An alphabetized chart posted in the classroom listing words students are learning.
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