Comprehension

Writing that describes imaginary events and/or people

Why the author wrote a text

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Group comprised of individuals working on the same level

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

Short explanation below photos

A title for a smaller portion of text

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A visual display of the relationships between facts and ideas

A literacy development strategy in which students write personal reflections

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

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

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

Group comprised of individuals working on various levels

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

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

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

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

Charts, graphs, photos, and graphic organizers

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

The author's intention for writing

Smaller or more restricted bank of words than is typical

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

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

Defend, Support, Critique

Actively engaging with a text while reading

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

Replaces a noun (She, He, It)

A recording of a reading of a book

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

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

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

The style of narration used to tell a story

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

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

Tells the story from the narrator's perspective

Words or phrases that show the connection between ideas

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ability to read with appropriate speed, accuracy, fluency

The ability to read a text and understand its meaning

A list of important words to know along with their meanings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Background knowledge a reader brings to a text

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

A title of a section

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

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

The collective vocabulary of a person or language

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

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

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

The central point of the passage

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

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

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

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