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comprehensionan ability to understand the meaning or importance of something (or the knowledge acquired as a result) comprehension strategiesspecific techniques that promote reading comprehension such as predicting and gaining word meanings from context contextdiscourse that surrounds a language unit and helps to determine its interpretation; the social or cultural situation situation in which a spoken or written message occurs schemaan internal representation of the world; how the mind...

phoneme is the basic unit of spoken language. It is a speech sound as it exists in the mind of the speaker A voiced speech sound made without stoppage or friction of the air flow as it passes through the vocal tract. Vowel A meaningful linguistic unit that cannot be divided into smaller meaningful elements, as the word book, or that is a component of a word, as s in books. Morpheme A development of association of print with meaning that begins early in a child's life and continues un...

AccomodationChanges in the curriculum, instruction, or testing format or procedures that enable students with disabilities to participate in a way that allows them to demonstrate their abilities rather than disabilities; Generally considered to include assistive technology as well as changes in presentation, response, timing, scheduling, settings, and tasks that do not fundamentally alter the intent; Do not invalidate assessment results and do not fundamentally alter the requirements o...

Writingthe process of encoding into syntactic (grammatical) structures an organized set of ideas which are semantically (meaning) related Writing Processorder of steps in creating a piece of writing: prewriting, writing/drafting, revising, editing, publishing PrewritingFirst step in the writing process; the writer generates ideas DraftingTo draw the outlines or plan of; sketch; emphasize content rather than mechanics Revising3rd stage of the writing process- refining/changing ideas or co...

Anticipation Guide Prereading strategy designed to activate students' knowledge about a topic and provide purpose for reading. Students react to teacher-prepared statements designed to focus attention on the topic to be learned. Serves as a guide for subsequent reading. Antonym A word opposite in meaning to another word Basal reader A collection of student texts and workbooks, teacher's manuals, and supplemental materials for developmental reading and sometimes writing instruction, use...

Veintĩnh mạch circulatego around; go from place to place or person to person lưu hành truyền bá ornament n vto decorate assassinationám sát murder murdererthe crime of intentionally killing a person: relaytiếp sức igniteto set on fire đánh lửa extinguishdập tắc perilhiểm họa folktalea story originating in popular culture, typically passed on by word of mouth. chuyện dân gian archipelagoA group of islands

comprehensionan ability to understand the meaning or importance of something (or the knowledge acquired as a result) comprehension strategiesspecific techniques that promote reading comprehension such as predicting and gaining word meanings from context contextdiscourse that surrounds a language unit and helps to determine its interpretation; the social or cultural situation situation in which a spoken or written message occurs schemaan internal representation of the world; how the mind...

Affixa bound (nonword) morpheme that changes the meaning or function of a root or stem to which it is attached, as the prefix ad- and the suffix -ing in adjoining. Alphabetic principlethe assumption underlying alphabetic writing systems that each speech sound or phoneme of a language should have its own distinctive graphic representation. Analytic Phonicsa whole-to-part approach to word study in which the student is first taught a number of sight words and then relevant phonic generaliza...

accountabilitythe idea that schools or teachers are responsible for education outcomes and should be evaluated anecdotal recorda description of behavior; a reporting of observed behavioral incidents assessmentthe act or process of gathering data in order to better understand the strengths and needs of student learning authentic assessmenta type of assessment that seeks to address widespread concerns that seeks to address widespread concerns about standardized, nor-referenced testing by ...

Idaho Reading Indicator (IRI) A test administered to Idaho K-3 students to measure ability in the critical domains of reading. Scored by benchmarks (Tier 1-3) Idaho Standards Achievement Test (ISAT) Idahos computerized standardized achievement exams, given state wide to students third grade and above in language arts, math and science Informal Assessment Assessment with room for teacher discretion, adjustment and interpretation. Used to check for understanding and guide instruction Com...