Orthographic
When a student can recall a word based on visual qualities
If a student is at a intermediate stage of literacy development. Which
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Reading with appropriate rate,accuracy, and expression.
What are the four stages of literacy development?
1. Beginning Literacy
2. Early Intermediate
3. Intermediate Literacy
4. Early Advanced Literacy
During the advanced stage of literacy development, students acquire new vocabulary primarily through?
Independent reading
Given the typical continuum of instruction on semantic relationships, what types of words would be most appropriate to teach students?
Antonyms
Semantic Relationships
Associations that exist between words
Why is teaching antonyms first important?
Antonyms helps students identify relationships instead of similar spelling and can categorize them to build a better knowledge of semantic relationships.
Adverb
is a word or a phrase that is modified with a comparative (i.e. -er) or superlative (i.e., -est) to the ending to convey time, place, or manner
Verbs
Words that show action or a state of being. One of these is required in a sentence
Adjectives
Tells us more about a noun. Describes the noun. Examples: green slow, five, stinky, tall, round
Open syllable
ends in a vowel
closed syllable
ends in a consonant
Syntactic knowledge
knowledge of how words can be combined in meaningful sentences, phrases, or utterances.
A teacher wants to determine an English Language Learner's readiness to analyze written language structures in English. The information that would best support the teacher's conclusion is the student's level of?
Syntactic Knowledge
semantic knowledge
the aspect of language knowledge that involves word meanings and vocabulary
Discourse processing
Study of how we understand text and stories
Phonics
the sounds that letters make and the letters that are used to represent sounds
Language Structure
The organization of words (both spoken and written) into meaningful segments (phrases or sentences) using conventions of grammar and syntax.
Automaticity
Automatically knowing a words from practice
Metaphor
A comparison without using like or as
regional settings
Operating system interface settings, such as the language used and the date, time, and currency formats. (9)
Hyperbole
exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. Can be tall tales, which include details that could never happen.
omniscient narrator
a narrator who is able to know, see, and tell all, including the inner thoughts and feelings of the characters
Fable
A brief story that leads to a moral, often using animals as characters
Ballad
A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas
Epic
A long narrative poem, written in heightened language, which recounts the deeds of a heroic character who embodies the values of a particular society
A group of fifth-grade students has read an article about the social behaviors of dolphins. Which activity would best prepare the students to participate in a class discussion about what they have leaned from the reading?
Creating an outline of main ideas and key details from the article
Phonological continuum
Phonemic awareness involves a continuum of skills that develop over time from the simplest to the most complex [Show Less]