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ABC books - An important tool in teaching the alphabet to young learners.
ABC books are books presenting all the letters of the English alphabet.
Academic language - A key component for teaching vocabulary
instruction, this is also called the language of the classroom.
Accuracy - The ability to pronounce words correctly.
Advanced learners - Students who score above one grade level on a
standardized test to the actual grade that they're in.
Affix - A morpheme that, when alone, is not a word, and appears only as a
part of a word. There are two types: prefixes and suffixes.
Alphabetic principle - The speech sounds that are represented by letters.
Analytic phonics - Also called, Whole-to-part phonics instruction. In this
approach, instruction begins with the identification of a familiar word or
sentence. The teacher then introduces a particular sound/spelling
relationship within that familiar word.
Antonym contextual clue - When a student seeks to understand the
meaning of a word by scouting around that word and finding an antonym (a
word with the opposite meaning)
Antonyms - Two words with opposite meanings (big and small).
Auditorily similar letters - Two letters that sounds alike (p and d)
Author studies - Readers who read books by one author and the students
discuss the author's style of writing
, Automaticity - This is the goal of all reading instruction, and it occurs
when the reader does not stop to decode word, instead, they read smoothly
and fluently.
Automaticity theory - A reading theory that requires readers to be able to
1) decode words, and 2) understand the meaning of the text
Background knowledge - All that a person knows about a topic
Balanced instructional program in reading - A reading program that
provides a mixture of direct reading instruction and strategies with
opportunities for students to practice. This kind of instructional reading
program is one that has these three things: 1) instructional materials (texts
and assessments), 2) reading skills and strategies students are expected to
masters, 3) instructional strategies to teach these skills and strategies
Basal reading programs - A commercially produced package of
instructional materials used to teach children to read, using graduated sets of
reading texts
Blends - Two- or three-letter combinations of consonants that are
pronounced together to make a sound. (bl in blend)
Book club - A group of students reading the same book at the same pace
Bound morpheme - An affix that only exists when attached to a word (pre
in pretest)
Cause and effect - A text structure used in expository texts to show how
one phenomenon results from another phenomenon
Character - The who of the story- in children's books, characters can be
people, but also animals, plants, and inanimate objects
Closed syllable - A syllable that ends with a consonant
Cognates - Two words from different language that have similar spellings
and meanings
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