Reading Teacher MTLE
Ability Grouping - ANS-Also known as tracking, is the practice of grouping children
together according to their talents in the
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students' needs, short-term grouping.
Affixes - ANS-Morphemes that can be attached to a base word in order to change its
meaning. Prefix, suffix.
Alphabetic principle - ANS-Assumes that for each speech sound or phoneme in an
alphabetic writing system, there is a specific graphic representation in the form of
alphabet letters. This principle states that the print letter will evoke a certain sound and
vice versa.
Analytic phonics - ANS-Students analyze the letter-sound relationships in previously
learned words in order to decode new words. Need and seed.
Auditory acuity - ANS-the ability to see, hear, or understand something easily. The
ability to perceive sounds of low intensity; the ability to detect differences between two
sounds on a characteristic such as frequency or intensity.
Auditory discrimination - ANS-The ability to recognize differences in phonemes,
including the ability to identify words and sounds that are similar and those that are
different. The brain's ability to organize and make sense of language sounds.
Bibliotherapy - ANS-Use of books to address emotional or behavioral issues by relating
the content of books and poems to the issues.
Blending - ANS-Combining sounds (can still hear both sounds). EX: bl- in blend
Caldecott Award - ANS-It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to
Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most
distinguished American picture book for children.
Cloze procedure - ANS-Testing involves deleting words from a prose selection and
asking students to replace them on the basis of the remaining context. It can be easily
done by any teacher and provides valuable reading comprehension information.
Comprehension - ANS-The ability to understand text and retell or answer specific
questions in regard to text.
Consonant Blends: Pl, Bl, Gr, Br - ANS-Two or more consonants are together, but each
consonant makes a separate sound. EX: Tr in Trap... [Show Less]