SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔the ? is the events that take place in a story - ✔✔plot
✔✔true/false - the literary element of style refers to the appearance of the words on the
page - ✔✔false; writing style & word usage
✔✔t/f - her eyes twinkle like the stars is an example of a metaphor - ✔✔false; simile
✔✔narrative writing - ✔✔writing that recounts a personal or fictional experience or tells
a story based on real or imagined events
✔✔persuasive writing - ✔✔writing that attempts to convince a reader
✔✔descriptive writing - ✔✔writing that attempts to paint a picture or describe a person,
place, thing, or idea
✔✔expository writing - ✔✔writing that gives information, explains why or how, clarifies a
process or defines a concept
✔✔informative writing - ✔✔writing that informs the reader in an attempt to create
newfound knowledge
✔✔creative writing - ✔✔writing that uses the writers imagination
✔✔norm-referenced tests - ✔✔assessment instruments that have been administered to
students of various socioeconomic backgrounds and in a variety of locations to develop
norms
✔✔criterion-referenced tests - ✔✔assessment instruments that assess mastery of
content (FCAT)
✔✔diagnostic assessment - ✔✔standardized tests aimed at determining students
strengths & weaknesses
✔✔performance-based assessment - ✔✔also know as authentic assessment-
incorporates real life applications of what has been taught
✔✔fluency checks - ✔✔quick usually one-minute checks for accuracy, rate, prosody
✔✔words per minute formula - ✔✔# of words X 60 divided by # of seconds
, ✔✔screening - ✔✔used to assess students at the beginning of the year to identify
students reading level & capabilities
✔✔progress monitoring - ✔✔used throughout the year to show gains in achievement &
to provide information to guide instruction
✔✔anecdotal notes (records) - ✔✔short, concise, written observations made by teacher
while student works. Purpose is to observe & record information that may be useful in
guiding instruction
✔✔cueing system - ✔✔3 main systems; semantic, syntactic, & graphophonemic.
✔✔semantic cueing system - ✔✔focuses on any meaning a student derives from a
sentence that is primarily based on prior knowledge. Students using semantic cueing
can identify sentences that make sense & those that do not
✔✔syntactic cueing - ✔✔focuses on structure of sentence and how language works.
Students can identify sentences that sound correct
✔✔graphopgonemic cueing - ✔✔focuses on a variety of visual cues & knowledge about
relationship between sounds & systems
✔✔miscue analysis - ✔✔a technique for recording & analyzing student oral reading
errors in order to gain an insight into the reading process they employ
✔✔cloze test - ✔✔involves getting students to fill in words deliberately omitted from a
passage or text
✔✔response logs - ✔✔informal assessment that documents students reading, viewing,
and listening(students record)
✔✔retelling - ✔✔technique that involves reading either silently or aloud and then
retelling what has been read.
✔✔? range is the span from highest to lowest note a person's voice can produce? -
✔✔vocal
✔✔? teaching is a way to help students learn songs that involve imitation usually
presented sequentially & repeated back by children - ✔✔rote
✔✔? are categories for established forms of compositions - ✔✔generes
✔✔elements of music - ✔✔rhythm, melody (tune), form, texture, timbre, dynamics