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MTTC Elementary Ed.
Terms, etc. for MTTC elementary education test
| Alliteration | repetition of teh initial cons |
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| Alliteration | Repetition of the initial consonant in nearby wrods. |
| Alliteracy | Having the ability to read but choosing not to read regularly. |
| Phonemic awareness | Being conscious of various sounds within a word. |
| Homophones | Words that are pronounced the same but have different meanings. May or may not be spelled differently. Ex: their, there |
| Homonyms | one of a group of words that share the same spelling and the same pronunciation but have different meanings. Are both homographs and homophones |
| Homographs | Words that are spelled the same, but have different meanings and may have different pronunciations. |
| Antonyms | Words whose meanings are opposite |
| Dichotomy | Represents two things that are far apart and often opposites in meaning. |
| Learning vicariously | Learning from another's experience |
| Context clues | Used to help the reader understand a word that they are seeing for the first time. |
| Cloze procedure | "fill-in-the-blanks" activity. The student is expected to use context clues to determine the words taht have been deleted from the text. |
| Conferencing | When writers work on a second or third draft and make a comment to rewrite. |
| Revising | Each interaction that occurs when a writer seeks a response, either from the teacher or from another writer in the class. |
| Editing | Takes place during revision. |
| The Writer's Workshop allows students to... | demonstrate their skills in daily writing. Students will share their writing with the class and teh teacher will instruct writing for improvements. |
| Showcase Portfolio | Contains the student's best work |
| Teacher Portfolio | Describes a portfolio kept by the teacher that includes assignments given to the class, together with data on the students' performance and notes about he success of each assignment. |
| Record-Keeping Portfolio | Refers to a portfolio kept by the teacher for each student containing notes from the student's parents and anecdotal records taken by the teacher. |
| Working Portfolio | Considered to be the most accurate because it contains all the student's work to date in a specific subject. |
| Which portfolio can be seen by both the teacher and the students? | working portfolio |
| Alliteration | Refers to the repetition of the initial consonant in nearby words. Ex: Rabbits running over roses. |