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drafting - ✔the second stage of the writing process, in which writers pour out ideas in a
rough draft.
echo reading - ✔the teacher or other reader reads a sentence and a group of students reread
or "echo" what was read. A great tool for helping to develop fluency.
editing - ✔the fourthe stage of the writing process, in which writers proofread to identify and
correct spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and grammatical errors.
efferent reading - ✔reading for information
Elkonin boxes - ✔a strategy for segmenting sounds in a word that involves drawing a box
to represent each sound in a word.
emergent literacy - ✔children's early reading and writing development before
conventional reading and writing.
environmental print - ✔signs, labels, and other print found in the community
etymology - ✔the origin and history of words; the etymological information is enclosed
in brackets in dictionaries
,explicit instruction - ✔systematic instruction of concepts, strategies, and skills that builds
from simple to complex.
exploring - ✔the fourth stage of the reading process, in which readers reread the text, study
vocabulary words, and then learn strategies and skills
expository text - ✔nonfiction
fluency - ✔reading smoothly, quickly and with expression (prosody)
free morpheme - ✔a morpheme that can stand alone as a word (e.g. book, cycle).
frustration level - ✔the level of reading material that is too difficult for a student to
read successfully. < 95% on a Running Record
genre - ✔a category of literature such as folklore, science fiction, biography, traditional,
modern / high fantasy, contemporary realistic fiction, informational books or historical fiction
goldilocks principle - ✔a strategy for choosing "just right books."
grand conversation - ✔a small-group or whole-class discussion about literature
grapheme - ✔a written representation of a sound using one or more letters.
graphic organizers - ✔diagrams that provide organized visual representations of
information from texts
graphophonemic - ✔referring to sound-symbol relationships
, guided reading - ✔students work in small groups to read as independently as possible a
text selected and introduced by the teacher. (Fountas & Pinnell)
high-frequency words - ✔a common English word, usually a word among the 100-300
most common words
homographic homophones - ✔words that sound alike and are spelled alike but have
different meanings (e.g. baseball bat and the animal bat).
homonyms - ✔words that sound alike but are spelled differently (e.g. see-sea, there-their-
they're), also called homophones.
hyperbole - ✔a stylistic device involving obvious exaggerations
imagery - ✔the use of words and figurative language to creat an impression
independent reading level - ✔the level of reading material that a student can read
independently with high comprehension and an accuracy level of 95-100%
inferential comprehension - ✔using background knowledge and determining
relationships between objects and events in a text to draw conclusions not explicitly stated
in the text
inflectional endings - ✔suffixes that express plurality or possession when added to a noun (e.g.
girls, girl's), tense when added to a verb (e.g. walked, walking), or comparison when added to
an adjective (e.g. happier, happiest).
informal reading inventory (IRI) - ✔an individually administered reading test composed of
word recognition lists, graded reading passages, reading interest survey, CAP, phonemic
awareness test, phonics tests, structural analysis tests, content reading CLOZE test, vocabulary
tests and spelling tests. They are used separately or together to determine students'
independent, instructional, and frustration levels and listening capacity levels
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