Sources of information outside of words that readers may use to predict the identities and meanings of unknown words. These may be drawn from the
... [Show More] immediate sentence containing the word, from text already read, from pictures accompanying the text, or from definitions, restatements, examples, or descriptions in the text. - √Answer>context clues
Quiz:Sequences for how information is selected, sequenced, organized, and practiced. These occur within each component of reading where a logical progression of skills would be evident: easier skills are introduced before more difficult skills, so that skills build progressively. - √Answer>Coordinated Instructional Sequences
Quiz:A prefix or suffix added to a root or base to form another word (e.g., -un in unhappy , -ness in likeness). - √Answer>Derivational affix
Quiz:Planned instruction to pre-teach new, important, and difficult words to ensure the quantity and quality of exposures to words that students will encounter in their reading. - √Answer>Direct Vocabulary Instruction
Quiz:Strategies that help students engage the meanings of a text (e.g., asking questions at critical junctures; modeling the thought process used to make inferences; constructing mental imagery). - √Answer>During Reading Comprehension Strategies
Quiz:A language-based disability that affects both oral and written language. It may also be referred to as reading disability, reading difference, or reading disorder. - √Answer>Dyslexia
Quiz:A part of writing and preparing presentations concerned chiefly with improving the clarity, organization, concision, and correctness of expression relative to task, purpose, and audience; compared to revising, a smaller-scale activity often associated with surface aspects of a text. - √Answer>Editing
Quiz:The skills, knowledge, and attitudes that are developmental precursors to conventional forms of reading and writing. - √Answer>Emergent Literacy
Quiz:The ability to translate language into print (writing) is ____________. - √Answer>Encoding
(Remember prefix en- means "put into", you are putting sounds into print).
Quiz:Reports factual information (also referred to as informational text) and the relationships among ideas. This type of text tends to be more difficult for students than narrative text because of the density of long, difficult, and unknown words or word parts. - √Answer>Expository text
(Remember, Expository is writing that seeks to EXplain and Inform)
Quiz:Language that departs from its literal meaning (e.g., The snow sparkled like diamonds; That child is a handful.). - √Answer>Figurative meanings [Show Less]