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Grammar   A description of how English works  
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Traditional Grammar   learning grammar by memorizing terminology and rules, diagramming sentences, completeing worksheets by filling in blanks, and taking numerous quizzes  
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Structural Grammar   views language as comprising three distinct levels: individual sounds, groups of sounds, and groups of words. Page 16  
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Transformational Grammar   uses basic or kernel sentences that are transformed or changed into various patterns. page 16  
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Rubric   a scoring guide that focuses on specific aspects of an assignment or task. It divides the task into various components, enabling the teacher to analyze and evaluate the presence or absence of each  
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Checklist   assessment tool to record whether or not a task was performed. Anything that can be reduced to yes/no or present/absent  
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Anecdotal Record   assessment that requires the teacher to observe the student and record, as soon as possible after the observation, an account of exactly what took place  
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Running Record   An oberservational tool that contributes to a student's language skills.  
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IRI - Running Record   A series of graded passages, increasing in difficulty, used to determine a child's reading level for both word identification and comprehension. It enables you to observe strengths and weaknesses, as well as gain insights about individual readers.  
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Writing Samples   student writing collected under various circumstances.  
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Taping Students   method of assessing skills through audio and videotape.  
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Portfolios   an organized collection of students work over a specific period.  
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Peer Sharing   students sharing their writing with their classmates as well as their teacher. Rules need to be set. Examples PG 28  
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Writing Folders   On way to Help students organize their writing efforts is to furnish them with writing folders that can also stor works in progress CD's, illustrations and notes  
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Narratives   are real or imaginary stories that have a clear beginning, middle, and end.  
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Descriptive Paragraphs   paints a vivid picture of a person, an object, or a scene by using sensory details  
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Writing Style   specific words punctuated with vivid modifiers and descriptive phrases. the use of appropriate connotations that do a good job of getting across intended meaning  
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Personification   is a comparison that gives an object or idea human or animal qualities  
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Onomatopoeia   is the use of words whose sounds suggest their meanings ( Splash,hum,moo,click,fizz, and pop)  
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Cliches   overused phrases:Hungry as a wolf, crystal clear, pretty as a picture.  
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Redundancy   unnecessary repetition  
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Wordiness   is the use of more words than are necessary to communicate an idea.Students should write more to the point  
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Empty expressions   phrases that add no meaning to a sentence: On account of, due to the fact that, what i want is, in my opinion  
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Inflated language   words that sound impressive because they are multisyllabic but do not communicate as effectively as simple direct words  
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Jargon   specialized vocabulary of a group or profession  
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Six components of writing   prewriting, drafting,revising,editing, proofreading, and publishing  
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Prewriting   is the planning phase of writing process. The writer thinks about the topic that will become the focus of the piece and delimits the topic so that it is manageable  
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Freewriting   students let their minds roam free and write about ideas as they think of them.  
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Delimiting a topic   limit your subject to one person or one example,specific time or place  
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Organzing Thoughts   making lists, semantic webbin, drawing or sketching, and discussion  
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Purpose   to explain or inform, to persuade to express personal thoughts, feelings, or opinions  
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Audience   Writers should consider the audience that they intend to reach before writings."who will be reading my work? How old are they? Are they adults, teenagers, or children?.  
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Point of View   Prewriting phase, first person : I, we, us, and our. Third Person : she, he, they, their, his, or her  
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Context Clues   context of a word. the surrounding words or the situation in which the word is used  
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Restatment   a word in a sentence is used and then its meaning is restated in simpler terms that the reader is more likely to understand. For example, " The mayor had the support of the press in his quest for reform - this is his search for ways to govern the city  
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Parallelism   The parallel construction is a clue - but only a clue For ex She will interrogate the suspect; I will question the witness  
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Atlas   used to locate maps and to get information related to the geography of the places of interest  
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almanacs   appropriate for locating facts in many categorie, such as sports,entertainment, science,history, current events, geography and the arts  
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Schema Theory   stored clusters of concepts based on prior knowledge.Each of the these stored clusters is called a schemas when readers actively relate their own knowledge to ideas in the text comprehension improves  
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Metacognition   The ability to understand and control one's own thought processes -realize what they know and what they don't know,set purposes, select appropriate reading and learning strategies,check their understanding,and evaluate their performance  
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Reciprocal Reading   predicting,generating questions,clarifying, and summarizing.  
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Atlas   used to locate maps and to get information related to the geography of the places of interest  
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almanacs   appropriate for locating facts in many categorie, such as sports,entertainment, science,history, current events, geography and the arts  
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Schema Theory   stored clusters of concepts based on prior knowledge.Each of the these stored clusters is called a schemas when readers actively relate their own knowledge to ideas in the text comprehension improves  
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Choral Reading    
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Metacognition   The ability to understand and control one's own thought processes -realize what they know and what they don't know,set purposes, select appropriate reading and learning strategies,check their understanding,and evaluate their performance  
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Reciprocal Reading   predicting,generating questions,clarifying, and summarizing.  
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Fluency   the ability to project the natural pitch, stress, and juncture of the spoken word on written text, automatically and at a natural rate.  
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Choral Reading   Poetry is often used for choral reading. It can be read in unison, one line per child, cumulatively, or in groups  
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Daily Observation   to gather data to record on checklists, rubrics, running records, and informal reading inventories  
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Checklist   A checklist is easily and quickly constructed and can be used to record dichotomous data indicating on a yes/no basis what a student is a capable or incapable or doing. some combine rating scale with checklist.  
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Rubric   enables the user to rate the quality of student performance according to a predetermined set of criteria and standards. Have rating scales  
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Running Record   Documents a child's reading as he/she reads out loud. Helps evaluate the reading level.  
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Informal Reading Inventory   the student reads aloud and the teachers uses symbols to note the types of miscues the student makes. Comprehension is graded by questions asked remember details and to understand vocabulary  
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Diagnosis   Searching for patterns of errors can help teacher to diagnose weaknesses as well as strengths  
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Alliteration   is the repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of several successive words for instance, peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.  
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Assonance   is the repetition of a vowel sound within words. Edgar Allan Poe's "the bells" From the molten golden notes  
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Onomatopoeia   is the use of words whose sounds suggest their meaning. Examples hum plop fizz click splash moo thump  
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Rhyme   refers to the repetition of accented syllables with the same vowel and consonant sounds  
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Rhythem   is the distinct beat produced by a pattern of accented and unaccented syllablem  
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Imagery   is the use of concrete details to create a picture or appeal to senses other than sight Ex And the sky went wan, and the wind came cold And the sun rose dripping, bucketful of gold  
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Folk Literature   nursery rhymes, ballads, epics, myths, legends,tall tales, folktales, fairy tales, and animal tales  
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Nursery Rhymes   anonymous jingles,riddles, chants,verses, and songs in couplets, quatrains, and limericks. Tell fantastical adventures of humans or animals. Include basic concerns of childhood, like love, hope, and security. The plots consist of imaginary adventures  
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Ballads   Short songs that exalt the deeds and aventures of either ordinary people or celebrated heroes. used to entertain royalty,Characters may be real or legendary  
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Epics   a long narrative, written in grandiose language, relating heroic deeds of an historical/regional hero; it represents national values and culture.  
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Myths   anonymous,symbolic stories presented as having occured in a previos age; explain supernatura traditions of a people, gods, etc. Gods and humans complex plots  
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Legends   exaggerated tales told as fact by one in the know about real places,people and events; the teller embllishes the facts to make the character bigger than live  
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Tall Tales   boisterous,extraordinary character endowed with physical prowes. Theme of a tall tale is an issue of concern to ordinary people, such as survival human behavior, and human interaction with other humans.  
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Folktales   short fitionalized prose narratives that are not historically accurate, but authentically represent the culture, region, or ethnic group that created them.  
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Fantasy   imaginary verbal and visual narratives that evoke wonder and magic impossible in the real world  
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Literary fairy tales   Typically, humility wins out over wealth.Simple logic triumphs over the educated youth . The format three incidents and theres a logical structure ,suspense adventure, simple events , and usually happy conclusions  
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Low Fantasy   is characterized by book length fanciful narratives set primarily in the reall, primary world, but including characters or events with plausible fantasy elements. The term low fantasy refers to the setting and is not an indication of the importance  
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High Fantasy   imaginary book lenght narratives set primarily in a secondary world the narratives are rooted in folk leterature and epic in proportion . These fantasies are created from the fantasists vision and imaginations.experiences defy reality  
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Science Fiction   imaginative narrative that deals with the reaction of human responses to changes in the leveel of science and technology  
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Fairy Tales   imaginary wonder tales that include enchantments and supernatural or marvelous elements and occurrneces. Magic charms , disguises, and spells are frequently used by supernatural characters to protect or help the human or animal characters  
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Fables   short animal tales intended to teach a lesson. Generally, the moral is stated at the end of the story. One animal clearly depicts good traits while another exhibits bad characteristics  
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Romanticism   Eighteenth & Nineteenth centuries. Began in Germany & England and spread thru Europe. Romanticism emphasized imagination, fancy, and freedom, emotion, wildness, beauty of the natural world, the rightes of the individual, the nobility of the common man,  
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Romanticism Cont   and the attractiveness of the pastorial live. Writers representative of this movement were William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, Percy Byshe Shelley, and Victor Hugo  
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Realism   was a nineteenth century reaction to romanticism . Realism is the true to life approach to subject matter.Reaslists focused on everyday life. Writers includes Balzac, Flaubert, George Eliot, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy  
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Symbolism   last two decades of the nineteenth : It denotes an early mondernist literary movement initiated in France during the nineteenth century that reacted against the prevailing standards of realism. Writers in this movement aimed to evoke, indirectly cont.  
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Symbolism Cont.   and symbolically an order of being beyone the material world of the five senses. Poetic expression  
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Mondernism   is experimentation and the realization that knowledge is not absolute Common themes loss of tradition and the dominance of technology. Einsteins, Planck's quantum, freud's theories on the unconscious  
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Surrealism   1920's writtings from this perioud feature an element of surpris, unexpected juxtapositions, and non sequitur. Andre Breton is considered the leader of the movement. began in paris. aimed to free people from what they saw as false rationality  
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Existentialism   emphasized individual existence, freedom, and choice. Soren Kierkegaard : the highest good for the individual is to find his or her own unique vocation  
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