LA vocabulary Flashcards
(108 cards)
Reader-Response Theory
Critical approach in which the reader reads poems to the class and then asks students to write their own poems in response to the author’s work
Directed Reading-Thinking Activity (DRTA)
To help students comprehend a reading selection in a textbook, the teacher asks students to examine the titles, subheadings, and illustrations in the selection. After examining the material, the students are asked to make predictions about the content of the selection and stop to evaluate the validity of their predictions
Book Talk
Includes an oral reading of a passage from the book. Is commonly used to motivate students. Includes a brief description of the characters and setting. Does not necessarily focus on the plot, action, and climax of the book.
Metacognitive Strategy
Refers to any deliberate process where one becomes aware of the process one uses to think. In the context of reading, the term refers to the knowledge of the approaches and patterns whereby one comes to understand and analyze a text and to hold a sense of its particular meanings, and meaningfulness, in one’s mind.
SSR Program
Teachers model silent reading for students. Students develop a habit of reading every day.
Shared Inquiry
In encouraging a group of students to engage in this approach to interpreting literary texts, an instructor does not seek primarily to convey information or to present his or her own opinions but instead guides participants in reading their own interpretations while interacting as a group. The goal is accomplished, in part, by asking the group open-ended, thought-provoking questions and by working hard to be an active listener in one’s role as the facilitator of the process.
Language Experience Approach
This approach is an approach to reading instruction based on activities and stories developed from personal experiences of the learner. The stories about personal experiences are written down by a teacher and read together until the learner associates the written form of the work with the spoken
Semantic mapping
A visual strategy for vocabulary expansion and extension of knowledge by displaying in categories words related to one another. It includes:the concept word, two category examples, and other examples
Etymology
The study of the history of words and how their form and meaning have changed over time
Orthography
This specifies the correct way of using a specific writing system to write the language. A method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols
Morphology
The identification, analysis and description of the structure of words
Phonemes
In a language or dialect, this is the smallest segmental unit of sound employed to form meaningful contrasts between utterances
Freewriting
Writing quickly about the general topic the idea is to keep writing rather than focusing on correctness or sense
Antithesis
A counter-proposition and denotes a direct contrast to the original proposition. In setting the opposite, and individual brings out of a contrast in the meaning (eg. the definition, interpretation, or semantics) by an obvious contrast in the expression
An Appositive
this is a noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it. It can be a short or long combination of words (example: the insect, a cockroach, is crawling across the kitchen table)
Independent Clause
A group of words made up of a subject and a predicate. IT can stand along as a sentence
Direct objects
This will follow a transitive verb [a type of action verb]. These can be nouns, pronouns, phrases, or clauses
Dangling Participle
Often found at the beginning of a sentence, that appears from its position to modify an element of the sentence other than the one it was intended to modify, as plunging in Plunging hundreds of feet into the gorge, we saw Yosemite Falls
Subject-Verb Agreement
refers to ensuring that singular subjects have singular verbs, and plural subjects have plural verbs. This is called agreement in number, and it refers specifically to verbs in the present tense
Ambiguous noun reference
if a reader does not know which of two or three earlier nouns a pronoun stands for
Clustering
A technique is which students use prewriting for collecting and organizing ideas for a written work – they brainstorm and then put their ideas into related groups
Identifying an audience
This is a step in the writing process in which you choose a style of writing, level of vocabulary, and tone for a writing assignment
Revising
A phase in the writing process, in which content is added, removed, or improved in semantically significant ways
editing
the process of cleaning up, or polishing, the presentation or surface features of a text, such as spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and physical layout
