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Reading Terms
Praxis II (5015) - Reading Terms
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01/06/2013

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Emergent Literacy
Definition
When a child uses books and writing materials to pretend to read/write, even though they do not actually know how to read/write.
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Guided Reading
Definition
The teacher gives the students a structure for and tells them the purpose of their reading, as well as a structure for how to respond to the text.
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Round-Robin Reading
Definition
Students take turns reading from a book.
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Echo Reading
Definition
The teacher reads a line from a book and the students repeat it.
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Choral Reading
Definition
Students read aloud at the same time as the teacher.
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Fill-in-the-Gap Reading
Definition
Teachers read from a book and pauses occasionally to the have students chime in with the appropriate rhyming or predictable word.
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Shared Reading
Definition
Echo, choral, or fill-in-the-gap reading.
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Big Books
Definition
Books that are very large, with large print and pictures.
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Decode
Definition
Look at written text and “translate” it into spoken sounds.
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Sight Words
Definition
Words that a student recognizes on sight, rather than first having to sound them out.
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Fluency
Definition
How well a student is able to read something. (E.g. Are they slow readers who constantly have to slow down/stop to sound out words?)
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