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ETE 315 Bradley University
Exam 2 (final) Spring 2012
27
Language - English
Undergraduate 3
05/06/2012

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Double Entry Journals
Definition
Students divide each page of their journals into two columns and write different types of information in each column. Sometimes they write quotes from a story in one and add reactions to the quotes in the other, or they write predictions in one and what actually happened in the other
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Plot Profile
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A chart to track the tension in a story
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Parts of Speech
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Words are sorted into 8 groups: nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. Students learn to identify these in order to understand the role of each in a sentence
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Point of View Writing
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Writing or retelling a story using different point of views or from a particular character's viewpoint
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Script Writing
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Once students want to write scripts, they'll recognize the need to add the structures unique to dramatic writing to their repertoire of written language conventions. Students examine scripts, write a collaboration script, then write individual scripts.
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Aesthetic Writing
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Students concentrate on the thoughts, images, feelings, and associations evoked
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Learning Logs
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Students write in these as part of thematic units. They write quickwrites, draw diagrams, take notes, and write vocabulary words
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Critical Listening
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Children listen to understand a message, but they also filter the message to detect propaganda devices, persuasive language, and emotional appeals
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Onset and Rhyme
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Talk in the Classroom
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Talk activities promote higher level thinking. Students talk for different purposes: to control classmates' behavior, maintain social relationships, convey information, and share personal experiences and opinions.
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Alphabetic Principle
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The one-to-one correspondence between the phonemes (sounds) and graphemes (letters), such that each letter consistently represents one sound
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Writing Genres
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Through reading and writing, students develop a strong sense of the genres and how they are structured: informational writing, journals and letters, persuasive writing, poetry, and stories.
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Literature Circles
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Students meet in small groups to read and respond to self-selected books. Students are discussing something that interests them and is manageable in a supportive community of learners
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Literature Focus Unit
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Teachers and students read and respond to one text together as a class or in small groups. Teacher chooses texts that are high-quality literature selections. Students explore the text and apply their learning by creating projects
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Small Group Roles
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Discussion director, passage master, word wizard, connector, summarizer, illustrator, investigator
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Fluent Reading
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Students learn to read quickly and with expression. 3 components are speed, word recognition, and prosody
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Elements of a Story
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A complex structure including plot, characters, setting, and other elements that interact to produce a story
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Word Sorts
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Students sort a collection of words taken from the word wall into two or more categories
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Sentence Cards
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Breaking up sentences and writing phrases, sentence fragments, and conjunctions on cards so that students may construct new sentences
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Persuasive Writing
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Winning someone to your viewpoint or cause. 3 ways to persuade are by appeals to logic, moral character, and emotion
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Expository Text Structures
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Organization of informational books including description, sequence, comparison, cause and effect, and problem and solution
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Dialogue Journals
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Journals written to be shared with the teacher or a classmate. Whoever receives the journal reads the entry and responds to it. The entries are like written conversations
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Sketch to Stretch
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Students draw pictures or diagrams to represent what the story means to them, not pictures of their favorite character or episode
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Propaganda
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A way of persuasion, but is designed to influence people's beliefs and actions using techniques to distort, conceal, and exaggerate
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Hot Seat
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Students take on the persona of a character from a story or biography they're reading and answer interview questions based on how those characters would respond
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Morphemes
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the smallest meaningful unit of language. How words are combined into sentences.
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WebQuest
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