FTCE K-6 Elementary Education,
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Developmental Stages of Writing - ✔✔-Pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing, publishing
Diagnostic Assessment - ✔✔-Standardized tests
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FTCE K-6 Elementary Education,
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Developmental Stages of Writing - ✔✔-Pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing, publishing
Diagnostic Assessment - ✔✔-Standardized tests (assessments) that aim to determine a student's
strengths and weaknesses
Semantic Cuing System - ✔✔-focuses on any meaning a student derives from a sentence based on prior
knowledge (does this sentence make sense or not?)
Editing - ✔✔-Proofreading the draft for misspelled words, grammatical & mechanical errors. Focus is on
mechanics.
Publishing - ✔✔-Sharing the final product with an audience
Talking to the text - ✔✔-Strategy known as "a think aloud"
Historical Fiction - ✔✔-Realistic stories that are set in the past
Print - ✔✔-Conveys meaning
Informal Assessment - ✔✔-Assessments include but are not limited to: cloze tests, running records,
anecdotal notes, rubrics, portfolios, informal reading inventories
Biography - ✔✔-Stories that tell about a person's life
Aesthetic Listening - ✔✔-Listening that is performed for enjoyment and pleasure
Partial Alphabetic - ✔✔-Letter is associated with sound at this stage
Pre-Alphabetic - ✔✔-Relies on visual cues to help read words. Usually pre-k stage. (ex.- knowing
McDonald's b/c of the golden arches)
Fantasy - ✔✔-Stories that cannot happen in the real world
Fluency - ✔✔-Ability to read quickly, accurately and with proper expression
Graphophonemic Cuing System - ✔✔-Focuses on various visual cues & knowledge about the relationship
between sounds & symbols. "Does this look right?" Hint: "graphic"
Primary Sources - ✔✔-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 - ✔✔-Also known as print media. Examples: video, t.v., radio
Artifacts - ✔✔-Real objects, usually representative of a particular culture or event
Visual - ✔✔-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 - ✔✔-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 - ✔✔-Examples of letters, words, directionality, punctuation
Creative Writing - ✔✔-Writing that uses the writer's imagination
Rubric - ✔✔-A set of scoring guidelines or criteria for evaluating student work. Often provide specific
guidelines regarding teacher expectations.
Errors - ✔✔-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 - ✔✔-Stories that might happen in the future
Text to world - ✔✔-Implies that reader has made a connection from the reading to a topic or event that
is taking place in the world.
Poetry - ✔✔-Writing that contains short lines, imagery, & elements of sound
3 main cuing systems - ✔✔-Semantic, Syntactic, Graphophonemic
Literary Elements - ✔✔-Setting, characters, plot, theme, style
Analogy - ✔✔-Detailed & sometimes lengthy comparison or 2 ideas or events
Text to Self - ✔✔-This connection implies that the reader has made a connection between the reading &
their personal lives
Directionality - ✔✔-Top to bottom; left to right
Literature Circles - ✔✔-A small, temporary, heterogeneous group of students that gather together to
discuss a book of their choice with the goal of enhancing comprehension
Prosody - ✔✔-Ability to read with appropriate rhythm, intonation, and expression
Summarizing - ✔✔-Simply & concisely paraphrasing what has been read
Components of Reading Fluency - ✔✔-AARP; accuracy, automacity, rate, prosody
Internet - ✔✔-A communication system that connects computers & their networks all over the world
Phonics - ✔✔-The knowledge allows a reader to "decode" words by translating the letters into speech
sounds
Oral Language Development - ✔✔-Use these activities to help facilitate: whole group, small group, 1:1,
discussions, read alouds, echo readings, songs, nursery rhymes, role play, drama, finger plays
Fluency Checks - ✔✔-Quick assessments that focus on accuracy, rate & prosody.
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