MTTC-103 (ELA Vocab)

are used to check the level of learning at the end of a lesson or unit of study.

Knowledge and experience a reader brings to the text.

An individually administered survey designed to help a teacher determine a student's reading instructional needs.

A procedure for teaching students to read words formed with prefixes, suffixes, roots or other meaningful word parts.

teacher defines/teaches/guides students through its application, and arranges for extended guided practice until mastery

Assessment that provides teacher with information about student’s thinking (ex. checking for understanding)

The teacher expressively reads and then the student immediately reads the same passage in the same way

a vowel that feels as if it has two parts, especially the vowels spelled ow, oy, ou, and oi.

Refers to the consistency of the outcomes; how dependable a test is. It is also a prerequisite of validity.

a way of observing/recording/analyzing oral reading behaviors to assess how the reader is using specific strategies

A process in which students interact with a text before, during, and after reading

An oral reading in which students read characters’ parts in a play, or in scripts they write.

Collections of student work that are typically used for an alternative assessment grade in the classroom.

___ as a study considers the meaning of words themselves and the meaning of word phrases.

Strategies that require the reader to actively transform key information in text that has been read (summarize, retell)

The actions and language of the teacher are clear, unambiguous, direct, and visible.

Assessment that includes tools designed to, before instruction, determine student’s strengths, weaknesses, and knowledge

Words that do not follow common phonic patterns (e.g., were, was, laugh, been).

Observing or testing a student’s progress and evaluating the instructional techniques.

Visual framework for organizing conceptual information in the process of defining a word or concept.

teachers reveal their thinking processes during read aloud by verbalizing: connections, questions, and predictions.

any skill that can be performed easily with little attention, effort, or conscious awareness.

It's breaking down bodies of writing into parts, and then reading these parts

The concept that letters and letter combinations represent individual phonemes in written words.

Reading with expression, proper intonation, and phrasing.

Two consecutive consonants that represent one phoneme, or sound (e.g., /ch/, /sh/).

A letter or letter combination that spells a phoneme; can be 1-4 letters in English (e.g., e, ei, igh, eigh).

guidance or assistance provided to a student enabling the student to perform a task he/she is unable to do alone

It’s a careful and purposeful rereading of a text where students really focus on what the author is saying

Understand that print has different functions depending on the context in which it appears

Ability to read text quickly, accurately, and with proper expression

the study of how meaning is derived from symbols, signs, text and other meaningful forms.

Indirect or brief references to well-known characters or events

reading or speaking in unison under the direction of a leader. It can be done in small groups or as a whole class.

The ability to detect differences in sounds

"thinking about thinking.".......... example, good readers use this before reading to clarify their purpose for reading

_____ is the mental act of knowing when one does and does not understand what one is reading.

Levels of difficulty from the easy books to complex books that advanced readers would need

Auditory processing skill. It relates to words, but occurs in the absence of print.

The smallest unit of sound within our language system.

The ability to notice, think about, or manipulate the individual phonemes in words

___ is the study of how language is used and how the different uses of language determine semantics and syntactics.

Strategies that help students engage the meanings of a text

An individually administered survey designed to help a teacher determine a student's spelling instructional needs.

In reading, a teacher records the child's reading behavior as he or she reads a book.

These questions require that students to read the text in order to answer complex text questions

Groups of students who share instructional needs and abilities that are regrouped as this changes.

The word order pattern in sentences, phrases, etc.

The various patterns of ideas that are embedded in the organization of text (e.g., cause-effect, comparison, sequencing)

The idea that print must be ordered and arranged systematically to communicate meaning effectively.

A system of teaching reading and spelling that focuses on sound/symbol relationships

In a syllable, the __ is the initial consonant(s), and the __ is the vowel and any consonants that follow (rat)

Not directly stated in the text, but may be inferred from the text; reading between the lines.

The cognitive process of connecting and merging ideas from different parts of the same texts or across different texts.

Two or more consecutive consonants which retain their individual sounds (e.g., /bl/ in block; /str/in string).

The smallest meaningful unit of language.

Portrays the relations that compose a concept; a strategy for graphically representing concepts.

the arrangement or set of rules of words and phrases to create a well-formed sentence in a language

The extent to which a test measures what it was intended to measure

Assesses the literacy knowledge of kindergarten children and early first graders.

Assessment at the beginning of school year to determine a student’s reading level

Strategies used to emphasize the importance of preparing students to read text (activate prior knowledge, set a purpose)

Elements of a text that give additional information to the reader, such as captions, charts, graphs, illustrations, maps

A _____ is a criterion-based scoring guide that uses a descriptive scale to assess student performance.

A phoneme (sound) associated with a letter.