Language Arts Terms

Phonemic awareness is the basic understanding that

A 1st grade teacher wants to provide scaffolding for students who are struggling to read and write

Research has found that

A teacher helped his students understand the meaning of the prefix post by relating it to football words

After her teacher discussed several books, julie decided to read Charlotte's Web, formed a group with friends to discuss

During guided reading, students read books at their:

When working with students who are English learners, researchers recommend

When children learn that print is written and read from L to R and T to B, they are acquiring

The origin of a word

In the word CAT the rime is

In which type of classroom are you most likely to see invented spelling used

Most fluent readers prefer to read

The word unwanted contains

A type of graphic organizer in which a student identifies the elements of a plot line

Running records can best be used to determine a child's:

Preschool teachers can nurture young children's phonemic awareness with developmentally appropriate activities like

When a teacher and students create a text together, they engage in

The division of words into syllables

A fourth grade teacher is compiling a text set for students to use during a thematic unit, this teacher decided to

The structure of a word (roots, suffixes, prefixes)

An informal reading inventory usually consists of

Which of the following words would you teach morphemically rather than syllabically

Reading fluency involves the components of

The way in which words are put together to form phrases or sentences

Breaking apart sentences into words

The goal of reading and writing instruction in the primary grades is that all children reach the fluent stage by

An activity in which students read part(s) of a specific reading together to build fluency

The meaning of a word

The smallest units of speech are

The strategy of identifying words by examining root words and affixes of longer words is called

Children pour out ideas with little concern about spelling, punctuation, and other mechanical errors during the

The technique in which students practice reading stories to develop fluency is

Of the following, the most effective way for a teacher to assess students' ability to apply comprehension strategies

Children read words accurately, rapidly, and automatically and they read with expression at the

The pretend post office has envelopes, papers, pens, and postcards to motivate children to read and write

Children are usually at the emergent stage of reading and writing in

When readers create mental images of what they are reading, they are using the strategy of

The concept that stories have a beginning, middle, and end is referred to as

What is the difference between editing and revising?

To assess reading fluency, many teachers make a series of check marks on a sheet of paper as the child reads each word

Children select a topic, consider purpose, audience, and form, and gather and organize ideas during what stage?

Books selected for a child's recreational reading should match the child's:

A type of scoring guide which can assist teachers in assessing a child's writing is a:

Diagrams that provide organized visual representations of information from texts are

Informational books are organized using

The term high-frequency words refers to words

The ability to orally read sentences expressively, with appropriate phrasing and intonation is known as

When a second grader read a Jigsaw Jones book and compared it to an Encyclopedia Brown book he was making a:

Students in a 4th grade class select their own writing topics and write independently, this class is participating in

A teacher is observed showing children how to hold books and turn pages. This behavior would be observed in

When students go beyond literal comprehension and make connections that are not explicitly stated in a text, they are

A teacher want to stress the importance of tone and audience awareness. What activities are appropriate for 4th grade?

Of the following, the best way to assess students' writing would be to use

When children move beyond personal experience to relate to global knowledge they are making: