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Praxis Review
Review for Teaching Reading Praxis
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05/05/2014

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(CAP) Concepts About Print
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Skills assessed to see what the child understands about print. This includes: book handling, directionality, word-by-word matching, and locating words in print.
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Diagnostic Assessment
Definition
Assessment that includes tools designed to (before instruction) diagnose student's strengths, weaknesses, knowledge, and skills.
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Formative Assessment
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Assessment that provides teacher with information about student's thinking. These are given to make instructional decisions or adjustments as necessary.
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Informal Reading Inventory (IRI)
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An individually administered survey destined to help a teacher determine a student's reading instructional needs.
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Leveled Text
Definition
Levels of difficulty from the easy books that an emergent reader might begin with to the longer, complex books that advanced readers would need
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Miscue Analysis
Definition
This is a way of closely observing, recording, and analyzing oral reading behaviors to assess how the reading is using specific cuing strategies, like the use of syntax, semantic information, and graphonics. Usually used for more advanced readers
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Running Records/Reading Miscue Inventory
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In reading, a teacher records the child's reading behavior as he/she reads a book. The teacher notes errors, self-corrections, substitutions and so forth.
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Reliability
Definition
Consistency of the outcome, how dependable a test really is
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Orthographic
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how something is spelled
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Summative assessment
Definition
Assessment that is comprehensive in nature. The provide accountability and are used to check the level of learning at the end of a lesson or unit or study. Summative assessments are also used for grading/progress reports.
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Alphabetic principle
Definition
The concept that letters and letter combinations represent individual phonemes in words.
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Auditory Discrimination skills
Definition
The ability to detect differences in sounds
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Blends
Definition
two or more consecutive consonants which retain their individual sounds. bl, str
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Digraphs
Definition
two consecutive consonants that represent one phoneme, or sound ch, sh
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diphthong
Definition
a vowel produced by the tongue shifting positions during articulation, a vowel that feels like it has two parts, especially ow, oy, ou and oi
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direct instruction
Definition
a teacher defines and teaches a concept, guides students through its application, and arranges for extended guided practice until mastery is achieved
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explicit instruction
Definition
the teacher's language is concise, specific, and related to the objective. The actions of the teacher are clear, unambiguous, direct and visible. Systematic instruction that involves teacher modeling and explanation. I do, we do and you do.
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grapheme
Definition
a letter or letter combination that spells a phoneme can be one, two, three, or four letters. e, ei, igh, eigh
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Implicit strategy
Definition
not directly stated, inferred
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letter sound correspondence
Definition
a phoneme (sound) associated with a letter.
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morpheme
Definition
the smallest unit of language, book, seventeen, ungrateful has 3
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phoneme
Definition
the smallest unit of sound within our language system
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phonemic awareness
Definition
the ability to notice the individual sounds in words.
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phonics
Definition
a way of teaching reading and spelling that focuses on sound/symbol relationships between a phoneme and letters that represent the phoneme
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Phonological awareness
Definition
understanding of sounds of words and word parts, including syllables, onsets, rimes, and rhyming.
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phonological processing
Definition
auditory processing skill. This relates to words, but occurs in the absence of print.
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Semantics
Definition
the study of the development and the change of the meanings of speech forms. It is the study of how meaning is derived from symbols, signs, text, and other forms.
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syntax
Definition
word order in sentences, phrases, etc.
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structural analysis
Definition
where you break words down into their base, roots, prefixes, suffixes to try to better understand them
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Automaticity (decoding)
Definition
the behavior that can performed with little attention, effort, or conscious awareness.
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Choral reading
Definition
reading that is done in unison with the direction of the leader
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Concept map
Definition
visual framework for organizing conceptual information in the process of defining a word or concept.
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Echo reading
Definition
a teaching strategy in which the teacher reads a few lines or a sentence and the student reads the same text the same way the teacher did
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fluency
Definition
ability to read text quickly, accurately, and with proper expression.
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phrasing
Definition
breaking down of bodies of writings into parts, and then reading this parts
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prosody
Definition
reading with expression, proper intonation, and phrasing
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Reader's Theater
Definition
an oral reading in which students read character's parts in a play or in scripts that they write
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semantic map
Definition
portrays the relations that compose a concept, a strategy for graphically representing concepts
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structural analysis skills
Definition
teaching students to read words formed with prefixes, suffixes or other meaningful word parts.
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close reading
Definition
careful and purposeful rereading of a text
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literary allusion
Definition
indirect or brief references to well-known characters or events
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metacognitive comprehension
Definition
thinking about thinking-clarify their purpose for reading the text-preview the text
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schema
Definition
prior knowledge
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synthesizing
Definition
connecting and merging ideas from different parts of the text or across different text. Does not have to be the most important ideas.
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4 systems of language
Definition
phonological, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic
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phonological system of language
Definition
"the sound system"
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syntactic system of language
Definition
the structure of language, word order, grammar, and sentence structure
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semantic system of language
Definition
the meaning of the word
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pragmatic system of language
Definition
"word code" ability to use language in appropriate situations, friends, formal etc.
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etymology
Definition
is the study of words and their origins and what they mean
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