Literacy Vocabulary

5. Strategies for identifying words that focus on meaning. Semantic strategies focus on whether or not a word makes sense in a sentence.
6. A method of reading in which all students in the class read aloud from the same book, regardless of their reading levels. The teacher calls on individuals to read, usually following a predetermined order.
8. A fluency-based passage reading teaching strategy that involves teacher modeling, discussion of passage meaning, choral reading, performances for peers and home practice.
10. A form of reading practice in which students read narrative and expository passages on a. variety of subjects.
11. A 5-day multi dimensional fluency-building activity that involves pre-reading vocabulary and background knowledge activities, echo reading, choral reading, partner reading, and post reading summarization activities.
12. A teaching approach designed to help learners build an effective system for reading a variety of increasingly challenging text over time.
13. Strategies for identifying words that involve looking at letters, breaking the word into parts, and/or matching letters and letter combinations with the sounds they make; phonics strategies.
14. A graph line drawn from a students current level of performance to a fixed benchmark score. The slope of the line depicts ongoing progress scores needed to meet the final benchmark score.

1. The ability to read texts orally using appropriate phrasing, intonation, and attention to punctuation.
2. Strategies for identifying words that focus on the conventions and rules related to sentence structure; grammatical strategies. Syntactic strategies involve figuring out whether a word sounds right in a sentence as if someone were talking.
3. Planned reading of texts to children for a specific purpose. These oral reading sessions have the potential to develop comprehension skills, oral language, vocabulary, core knowledge, ability to visualize, motivations for the subject or reading in general, and ultimately reading comprehension, but only if they and conducted in an interactional style.
4. The middle score. If a student reads three grade level passages at 40 words per minute, 76 words per minute, and 50 words per minute, the median or middle score would be 50 words per minute.
6. Scores that allow teachers to compare students rate of improvement with other students in the same grade and at the same level, thus providing another indicator of how effective instruction is for a student.
7. The ability to read texts accurately, quickly, and with expression.
9. Any of the wide variety of technology applications designed to help students with disabilities learn, communicate, enjoy recreation, and otherwise function more independently by bypassing their disabilities. Also called adaptive technology.