MTTC-103 (ELA Vocab)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A phoneme (sound) associated with a letter.

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

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

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

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

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

Knowledge and experience a reader brings to the text.

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

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

The ability to detect differences in sounds

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

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

The word order pattern in sentences, phrases, etc.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Strategies that help students engage the meanings of a text

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

Indirect or brief references to well-known characters or events

Reading with expression, proper intonation, and phrasing.

The smallest meaningful unit of language.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The smallest unit of sound within our language system.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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