FTCE K-6 Elementary Education
Developmental Stages of Writing - answerPre-writing, drafting, revising, editing,
publishing
Diagnostic Assessment - answerStandardized tests (assessments) that aim to
determine a student's strengths and weaknesses
Semantic Cuing System - answerfocuses on any meaning a student derives from a
sentence based on prior knowledge (does this sentence make sense or not?)
Editing - answerProofreading the draft for misspelled words, grammatical & mechanical
errors. Focus is on mechanics.
Publishing - answerSharing the final product with an audience
Talking to the text - answerStrategy known as "a think aloud"
Historical Fiction - answerRealistic stories that are set in the past
Print - answerConveys meaning
Informal Assessment - answerAssessments include but are not limited to: cloze tests,
running records, anecdotal notes, rubrics, portfolios, informal reading inventories
Biography - answerStories that tell about a person's life
Aesthetic Listening - answerListening that is performed for enjoyment and pleasure
Partial Alphabetic - answerLetter is associated with sound at this stage
Pre-Alphabetic - answerRelies on visual cues to help read words. Usually pre-k stage.
(ex.- knowing McDonald's b/c of the golden arches)
Fantasy - answerStories that cannot happen in the real world
Fluency - answerAbility to read quickly, accurately and with proper expression
Graphophonemic Cuing System - answerFocuses on various visual cues & knowledge
about the relationship between sounds & symbols. "Does this look right?" Hint: "graphic"
Primary Sources - answerA document or piece of work that was written, recorded or
created during a particular time period. Examples: photos, speeches, interviews, diaries,
videos, audio
, Visual Media - answerAlso known as print media. Examples: video, t.v., radio
Artifacts - answerReal objects, usually representative of a particular culture or event
Visual - answerIs related to the "look" of the letter in a word and the word itself. Used by
a reader when he studies the beginning sound, word length, word chunks, etc. Part of
the graphophonemic cuing system.
Phonological Awareness - answerIncludes ability of a student to identify & manipulate
large parts of spoken language & awareness of other aspects of sound in language.
Examples: alliteration, intonation, rhyming.
Concepts of Print - answerExamples of letters, words, directionality, punctuation
Creative Writing - answerWriting that uses the writer's imagination
Rubric - answerA set of scoring guidelines or criteria for evaluating student work. Often
provide specific guidelines regarding teacher expectations.
Errors - answerThese are tallied during a reading whenever a child does any of the
following: substitutes words, omits words, inserts a word, has to be told the word.
Science Fiction - answerStories that might happen in the future
Text to world - answerImplies that reader has made a connection from the reading to a
topic or event that is taking place in the world.
Poetry - answerWriting that contains short lines, imagery, & elements of sound
3 main cuing systems - answerSemantic, Syntactic, Graphophonemic
Literary Elements - answerSetting, characters, plot, theme, style
Analogy - answerDetailed & sometimes lengthy comparison or 2 ideas or events
Text to Self - answerThis connection implies that the reader has made a connection
between the reading & their personal lives
Directionality - answerTop to bottom; left to right
Literature Circles - answerA small, temporary, heterogeneous group of students that
gather together to discuss a book of their choice with the goal of enhancing
comprehension
Prosody - answerAbility to read with appropriate rhythm, intonation, and expression
Developmental Stages of Writing - answerPre-writing, drafting, revising, editing,
publishing
Diagnostic Assessment - answerStandardized tests (assessments) that aim to
determine a student's strengths and weaknesses
Semantic Cuing System - answerfocuses on any meaning a student derives from a
sentence based on prior knowledge (does this sentence make sense or not?)
Editing - answerProofreading the draft for misspelled words, grammatical & mechanical
errors. Focus is on mechanics.
Publishing - answerSharing the final product with an audience
Talking to the text - answerStrategy known as "a think aloud"
Historical Fiction - answerRealistic stories that are set in the past
Print - answerConveys meaning
Informal Assessment - answerAssessments include but are not limited to: cloze tests,
running records, anecdotal notes, rubrics, portfolios, informal reading inventories
Biography - answerStories that tell about a person's life
Aesthetic Listening - answerListening that is performed for enjoyment and pleasure
Partial Alphabetic - answerLetter is associated with sound at this stage
Pre-Alphabetic - answerRelies on visual cues to help read words. Usually pre-k stage.
(ex.- knowing McDonald's b/c of the golden arches)
Fantasy - answerStories that cannot happen in the real world
Fluency - answerAbility to read quickly, accurately and with proper expression
Graphophonemic Cuing System - answerFocuses on various visual cues & knowledge
about the relationship between sounds & symbols. "Does this look right?" Hint: "graphic"
Primary Sources - answerA document or piece of work that was written, recorded or
created during a particular time period. Examples: photos, speeches, interviews, diaries,
videos, audio
, Visual Media - answerAlso known as print media. Examples: video, t.v., radio
Artifacts - answerReal objects, usually representative of a particular culture or event
Visual - answerIs related to the "look" of the letter in a word and the word itself. Used by
a reader when he studies the beginning sound, word length, word chunks, etc. Part of
the graphophonemic cuing system.
Phonological Awareness - answerIncludes ability of a student to identify & manipulate
large parts of spoken language & awareness of other aspects of sound in language.
Examples: alliteration, intonation, rhyming.
Concepts of Print - answerExamples of letters, words, directionality, punctuation
Creative Writing - answerWriting that uses the writer's imagination
Rubric - answerA set of scoring guidelines or criteria for evaluating student work. Often
provide specific guidelines regarding teacher expectations.
Errors - answerThese are tallied during a reading whenever a child does any of the
following: substitutes words, omits words, inserts a word, has to be told the word.
Science Fiction - answerStories that might happen in the future
Text to world - answerImplies that reader has made a connection from the reading to a
topic or event that is taking place in the world.
Poetry - answerWriting that contains short lines, imagery, & elements of sound
3 main cuing systems - answerSemantic, Syntactic, Graphophonemic
Literary Elements - answerSetting, characters, plot, theme, style
Analogy - answerDetailed & sometimes lengthy comparison or 2 ideas or events
Text to Self - answerThis connection implies that the reader has made a connection
between the reading & their personal lives
Directionality - answerTop to bottom; left to right
Literature Circles - answerA small, temporary, heterogeneous group of students that
gather together to discuss a book of their choice with the goal of enhancing
comprehension
Prosody - answerAbility to read with appropriate rhythm, intonation, and expression
