Developmental Stages of Writing - ANSWER-Pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing, publishing
Diagnostic Assessment - ANSWER-Standardized tests
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Semantic Cuing System - ANSWER-focuses on any meaning a student derives from a sentence based on prior knowledge (does this sentence make sense or not?)
Editing - ANSWER-Proofreading the draft for misspelled words, grammatical & mechanical errors. Focus is on mechanics.
Publishing - ANSWER-Sharing the final product with an audience
Talking to the text - ANSWER-Strategy known as "a think aloud"
Historical Fiction - ANSWER-Realistic stories that are set in the past
Print - ANSWER-Conveys meaning
Informal Assessment - ANSWER-Assessments include but are not limited to: cloze tests, running records, anecdotal notes, rubrics, portfolios, informal reading inventories
Biography - ANSWER-Stories that tell about a person's life
Aesthetic Listening - ANSWER-Listening that is performed for enjoyment and pleasure
Partial Alphabetic - ANSWER-Letter is associated with sound at this stage
Pre-Alphabetic - ANSWER-Relies on visual cues to help read words. Usually pre-k stage. (ex.- knowing McDonald's b/c of the golden arches)
Fantasy - ANSWER-Stories that cannot happen in the real world
Fluency - ANSWER-Ability to read quickly, accurately and with proper expression
Graphophonemic Cuing System - ANSWER-Focuses on various visual cues & knowledge about the relationship between sounds & symbols. "Does this look right?" Hint: "graphic"
Primary Sources - ANSWER-A document or piece of work that was written, recorded or created during a particular time period. Examples: photos, speeches, interviews, diaries, videos, audio
Visual Media - ANSWER-Also known as print media. Examples: video, t.v., radio
Artifacts - ANSWER-Real objects, usually representative of a particular culture or event
Visual - ANSWER-Is related to the "look" of the letter in a word and the word itself. Used by a reader when he studies the beginning sound, word length, word chunks, etc. Part of the graphophonemic cuing system.
Phonological Awareness - ANSWER-Includes ability of a student to identify & manipulate large parts of spoken language & awareness of other aspects of sound in language. Examples: alliteration, intonation, rhyming.
Concepts of Print - ANSWER-Examples of letters, words, directionality, punctuation
Creative Writing - ANSWER-Writing that uses the writer's imagination
Rubric - ANSWER-A set of scoring guidelines or criteria for evaluating student work. Often provide specific guidelines regarding teacher expectations.
Errors - ANSWER-These are tallied during a reading whenever a child does any of the following: substitutes words, omits words, inserts a word, has to be told the word.
Science Fiction - ANSWER-Stories that might happen in the future
Text to world - ANSWER-Implies that reader has made a connection from the reading to a topic or event that is taking place in the world.
Poetry - ANSWER-Writing that contains short lines, imagery, & elements of sound
3 main cuing systems - ANSWER-Semantic, Syntactic, Graphophonemic
Literary Elements - ANSWER-Setting, characters, plot, theme, style
Analogy - ANSWER-Detailed & sometimes lengthy comparison or 2 ideas or events
Text to Self - ANSWER-This connection implies that the reader has made a connection between the reading & their personal lives
Directionality - ANSWER-Top to bottom; left to right [Show Less]