Nila’s Literacy Concept Wall by

Focus Lesson

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Period of the class that is focused on teacher instruction and introducing the concept to the students as a whole.

Gradual Release of Responsibility

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Framework that is separated into teacher instruction (focus lesson), Guided Practice where students and the teacher work together to learn and practice the concept, collaborative learning where the students help each other to practice the concept, and independent practice where the students work on the concept on their own.

Independent Practice

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Students complete work in connection with the lesson on their own. (Usually after focus, guided, and collaborative instruction/practice)

The Science of Reading

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This is a research based concept that continues to evolve. It is not something that can be bought, but rather it is put into practice through the teaching of the 5 main components of reading which are phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.

Language Comprehension

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The ability to find the meaning of words when heard in sentences.

Word Recognition

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The ability to recognize words while reading without having to put in an excess amount of effort.

Instructional Design

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How instruction or teaching is planned and put into place in order to give students the most interesting and effective learning experience.

Scaffolding

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Providing support for students with different skill sets to complete tasks that they may have otherwise not been able to do.

Cognitive Modeling

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Thinking through a process out loud when engaging in focused instruction with students. (Ex. When reading a story to your students you explain the thoughts going through your mind as you read, such as keeping the book upright, reading left to right, etc.)

Grapheme-Phoneme Correspondence

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How written letters/symbols and their sounds are connected

Syntactic Structure

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How sentences are put together.

Phonemic Analysis

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Breaking words apart into the different sounds that they are made up of.

Morphemes

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Smallest pieces of words with meaning.

Semantic Analysis

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How we understand the meanings of words and phrases.

Phonemes

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Smallest distinctive units of sound in words/language.

Grapheme

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The smallest unit in a type of writing system (ex. Letters)

Orthographic Processing

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Recognizing words and letters while also being able to put letters in the right order to make words.

Encoding

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The ability to write words down properly

Syllables

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Small units of speech containing one or more vowel sounds. There are closed and open syllables depending on if the vowel has a long or short sound.

Fluency

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Being able to read continuously and accurately with proper emotion and tone.

Vocabulary

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Words a student can recognize and use in when writing and reading.

Dipthong

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The sound that you get when two vowels are right beside each other in the syllable of a word. When reading the word the reader moves smoothly from one vowel to another Ex. Loin

Blend

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2 or three consonants placed adjacent to each other that make a new sound. Ex. (sl)ope, (pl)ay

Digraph

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When two consonants are placed together in a word and make one single sound.

Compound Word

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A word made up of two usually separate words that are put together to create new meaning . Ex. Pancake (Pan-cake), Ice cream (Ice-cream)

Prefix

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A word, syllable, or letter at the beginning of a word that changes it’s meaning

Suffix

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A word, syllable, or letter at the end of a word that changes it’s meaning or creates a different word

Language Aquisition

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Gaining ability to understand and use a language properly in speech, reading, and writing.

L2 Learner

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Another name for a student who is having English or another language taught to them for the first time while already knowing another language.

Oral Reading

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The act of reading written material aloud

Context

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What influences and gives meaning to a particular text or event

Homonym

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Words with the same pronunciation or spelling but different meaning

Homograph

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Words with the same spelling as another but different meaning and pronunciation

Monitoring Comprehension

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Checking students level of understanding of the text while reading

Expository text

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Non-fiction that gives facts information about a specific topic to readers

Narrative Nonfiction

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Non-fiction text that uses creative literary techniques to tell the story of a real life event or teach about a topic using accurate information.

Hybrid Nonfiction

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Text that uses elements of both narrative and expository techniques to teach the reader about a topic.

Strategy

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A plan of action you use to achieve a goal.

Text complexity

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How difficult a piece of text is for a reader to both read and understand.

Monitoring Strategies

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Ways that a teacher can check the understanding that a student has of a text that they are currently reading.

Summarizing

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Describing what happened in a book or chapter of a book in more short concise terms.

Inferences

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Predictions made upon information that you have read so far in a book. “What you think will happen”.

Text Structures

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How a text is organized and presented

Phonological Deficit

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When someone has an issue with their phonological processing system of language.

Criteria for Success

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How you will measure if your students reached the objective that they should in their learning during your lesson.