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Basal Reader
An anthology of stories used for reading instruction
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Decoding
The act of taking written text and putting it into spoken form.
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Encoding
The act of taking spoken text and putting it in written form.
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Fluency
When a person reads accurately, at a good rate for their purposes, and with good comprehension (prosity).
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Graphem
The letter or letters that represent a sound.
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Graphophonic Cues
Comprehension cues used to determine how a word is pronounced.
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Inferential Comprehension
This type of comprehension, reads between the lines, it looks for meaning that is implied but not stated.
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Literal Comprehension
Comprehension of specific information, names, dates, places etc..
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Orthography
The spelling of a word or how it is written.
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Read aloud
When a teacher reads aloud to students.
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Recoding
Changing information from spoken to written or written to spoken.
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Schematic Cues
Comprehension cues that come from the questions who, what, where, when.
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Syntactic Cues
Comprehension cues that come from the order of words.
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Zone of proximal development
The optimal point of instruction for a student based on his or her development so far.
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