Comprehension

Strategy in which a teacher organizes students into small groups to discuss a common text

The collective vocabulary of a person or language

Words or phrases that show the connection between ideas

The persons, animals, or other figures who are in stories

A catalog list at the end of the text containing all of the topics discussed

Group comprised of individuals working on various levels

Creative writing written in verse and often including rhymes or heavy use of figurative language

Charts, graphs, photos, and graphic organizers

Defend, Support, Critique

A title of a section

A form of scaffolding in which a new concept or vocabulary word is written in the center and pictures or description

Using meaningful word parts (morphemes) to study a word or determine its meaning

A list of important words to know along with their meanings

An instructional strategy in which the teacher demonstrates a concept or skill and students learn by observing

The careful examination of a text or one element of a text, including theme, plot, characters, or setting

Smaller or more restricted bank of words than is typical

Fictional stories, plays, poems. Usually contains some element of plot or conflict

This language occurs when student use what they know about sentence structure in native language help language in Eng

Phrases and words used to link sentences, paragraphs, and ideas together

A teaching strategy in which a teacher states his/her thoughts aloud to demonstrate a lesson to students

Objects used in everyday life brought into the classroom to enhance instruction

The central point of the passage

Active learning activity in which the teacher provides a prompt, the students brainstorm responses

A recording of a reading of a book

Replaces a noun (She, He, It)

Used mostly in instructional texts where the narrator is speaking to the reader

Writing that describes imaginary events and/or people

A journal in which students records their initial responses to their reading

A dialog between teachers and students regarding segments of text; summarizing, question generating, clarifying, predict

Group comprised of individuals working on the same level

(schema or prior knowledge) information or experience that the student has prior to learning

A graphic organizer with two or more overlapping circles used to illustrate/examine similarities and difference.

A graphic organizer in which elements from a story are recorded to help with literary analysis

A teaching strategy in which students are gradually given less direct guidance

Putting something that was read, heard, or viewed into your own words

The narrator is outside of the story, but understand the motivations and actions of all characters

A teaching strategy in which students carefully and purposefully read and reread a text

An organizational approach where the author presents a problem and possible solution

Background knowledge a reader brings to a text

Lesson or message to be learned. Common in fables or children's stories

The time and place that a story takes place in a novel

The ability to analyze text by questioning whether it is fact or opinion, determining if there is faulty reasoning

Various forms of texts including short stories, essays, folktales, fairy tales, poetry, historical fiction, biographies

A visual display of the relationships between facts and ideas

Relates information or events using third person pronouns such as "he", "she, and "they"

The attitude of the author in writing, and which might be comical, serious, frightening, joyful. Maybe called diction

The author's intention for writing

Writing based on factual information and that may tell a story or give information such as how to do something

A technique a writer or speaker uses to persuade a reader or listener

Text structure can include cause/effect, problem/solution, main idea/details, and/or sequence

A series of statements used to preview and activate prior knowledge before reading a text

Making notes in a text and questioning unfamiliar ideas while reading something new

Common sentence starters provided to students to use when generalizing, summarizing, or transitioning between ideas

The events included in a story (may or may not be sequential)

A hierarchy of level of knowledge; each level has associated verbs teachers can use to start questions

Ability to read with appropriate speed, accuracy, fluency

Create, Evaluate, Analyze, Apply, Understand, Remember these 6 levels produce original thoughts

Writing method in which the author explains reasons why something happened or the effects of something that has happened

Actively engaging with a text while reading

The style of narration used to tell a story

An organizational approach where the author provides similarities and differences about two ideas

Understanding parts of the written text without it being stated explicitly such as determining cause and effect

An organizational approach that follows an orderly progression of event based in time

Words in two languages that share a similar meaning, spelling, and pronunciation

Writing or speaking a brief description of more extensive information by covering only the main/most important points

Proof or support of the meaning of what is being read or has been read. The evidence can be a direct quote

A conclusion or opinion based on information that is given, and that is sometimes called an educated guess

Understanding of the facts in the written text such as stated main idea or specific details

The narrator is outside of the story and has limited access to the minds and motivations of characters

A form of scaffolding in which students make predictions prior to reading

Why the author wrote a text

Teachers can include text frames throughout a reading with questions designed to prompt students to think about key idea

Portrayal of human experience (factual, fictional, or a combination) through the performance of dialog and stage

An on-going bulletin board with terms used frequently in the classroom; words are often added as they are introduced

Tells the story from the narrator's perspective

A written list of key vocabulary words or phrases used to support students in writing

A graphic organizer used throughout a unit that shows what (W), and learned (L)

A title for a smaller portion of text

To make final comments/summation over what has been read or written

Short explanation below photos

An attitude or perspective toward the topic of what is being written or spoken by the author or narrator

Text that provides factual newspapers, magazines, chapters in a textbook, how-to manuals or directions

The big idea or major message in a story which is often universal in that it goes beyond cultural boundaries

A story or account of someone's life or a part of that person's life

A literacy development strategy in which students write personal reflections

An attitude or perspective toward the topic of what is being written or spoken by the character within the story

A word or phrase that does not have its normal every day, literal meaning

The ability to read a text and understand its meaning