RVE Study Guide
Inflection
A bound morpheme that combines with base words to indicate tense, number, mood, person, or gender.
Syntactic cue
Evidence from knowledge of the rules and patterns of language that aids in the identification of an unknown word from the way it is used in a grammatical construction.
Literature circle
That part of a literature-based reading program in which students meet to discuss books they are reading independently. Note: The books discussed are usually sets of the same title, sets of different titles by one author, or sets of titles with a common theme.
Semantic properties
The component features of the meaning of a word
Phonemic awareness
The conscious awareness that words are made up of segments of our own speech that are represented with letters in an alphabetic orthography; also called phoneme awareness. \nA student who possesses phonemic awareness can segment sounds in words and blend strings of isolated sounds together to form recognizable words. Example: separate out the sounds in "bat"
Figure of speech
The expressive, nonliteral use of language for special effects, usually through images, as in metaphor and personification.
Structural analysis
The identification of word-meaning elements, as re and read in reread, to help understand the meaning of a word as a whole; morphemic analysis.
Comprehension Monitoring
The mental act of knowing when one does and does not understand what one is reading.
Onset
The part of a syllable before the vowel; some syllables do not have onsets.\n\nExample: "st" in the word stage.
Invented spelling
The result of an attempt to spell a word whose spelling is not already known, based on a writer's knowledge of the spelling system and how it works; also referred to as "temporary spelling" or "developmental spelling."
Syntax
The rule system governing sentence formation; the study of sentence structure.
Contextual analysis
The search for the meaning of an unknown word through an examination of its context; the use of a larger linguistic unit to determine the meaning of a smaller unit.
Morpheme
The smallest meaningful unit of language.
Context
The sounds, words, or phrases adjacent to a spoken or written language unit.
Blend
A consonant sequence before or after a vowel within a syllable, such as cl, br, or st; also called "consonant blend."
Book talk
A discussion of one or more books by a teacher, librarian, or student to introduce books and to induce others to read them.
Miscue
A formal examination of the use of miscues as the basis for determining the strengths and weaknesses in the background experiences and language skills of students as they read.
Base word
A free morpheme, usually of Anglo-Saxon origin, to which affixes can be added.
Grapheme
A letter or letter combination that spells a single phoneme; in English, a grapheme may be one, two, three, or four letters, such as e, ei, igh, or eigh.
Rime
A linguistic term for the part of a syllable that includes the vowel and what follows it; different from the language play activity of rhyming.\n\nExample: "age" in the word "stage"
Affix
A morpheme or meaningful part of a word attached before or after a root or base word to modify its meaning; a category that includes prefixes and suffixes.
Free morpheme
A morpheme that can stand alone in word formation.
Prefix
A morpheme that precedes a root or base word and that contributes to or modifies the meaning of a word; a common linguistic unit in Latin-based words.
Suffix
A morpheme, added to a root or base word, that often changes the word's part of speech and that modifies its meaning.
Bound morpheme
A morpheme, usually of Latin origin in English, that cannot stand alone but is used to form a family of words with related meanings. A bound root (such as -fer) has meaning only in combination with a prefix and/or a suffix.
Root
A morpheme, usually of Latin origin in English, that cannot stand alone but that is used to form a family of words with related meanings
Minimal pair
A pair of words that contrast only in one phoneme.
Consonant
A phoneme that is not a vowel and is formed with obstruction of the flow of air with the teeth, lips, or tongue; also called a closed sound in some instructional programs; English has 40 or more consonants; also may refer to an alphabet letter used in representing any of these sounds.
Dialect
A social or regional variety of a particular language with phonological, grammatical, and lexical patterns that distinguish it from other varieties.
Phoneme
A speech sound that combines with others in a language system to make words
Vowel combination
A spelling pattern in which two or more adjoining letters represent a single vowel sound (e.g., ea for /e/ in bread, oa for /o/ in boat); also called vowel pattern, vowel digraph, vowel pair, or vowel team.
Telegraphic speech
A stage in oral language development when children use two-word phrases and place the subject before the verb
KWL
A strategy developed by Donna Ogle that is especially useful for identifying purposes for reading expository text. The strategy, which typically involves the use of a graphic organizer, prompts the reader to consider What I Know (K), What I Want To Learn (W), and What I Have Learned (L).
High-frequency word
A word that appears many more times than most other words in spoken or written language. The best way to learn high-frequency words is through practice with predictable texts.
Orthography
A writing system; correct or standardized spelling according to established usage in a given language.
Decoding
Ability to translate a word from print to speech, usually by employing knowledge of sound-symbol correspondences; also, the act of deciphering a new word by sounding it out.
Language Experience Approach (LEA)
An approach to language learning in which students' oral compositions are transcribed and used as materials of instruction for reading, writing, speaking, and listening
Idiom
An expression whose meaning may be unrelated to the meaning of its parts.
Vowel
An open phoneme that is the nucleus of every syllable and is classified by tongue position and height, such as high/low or front/mid/back; English has 15 vowel phonemes.
Cloze procedure
Any of several ways of measuring a person's ability to restore omitted portions of an oral or written message by reading its remaining context.
Running record
Assessment tool used to code, score and analyze a student's oral reading behavior
Semantic confusion
Children use words incorrectly
Directed Reading-Thinking Activity
DR-TA Comprehension strategy that guides students in asking questions about a text, making predictions, and then reading to confirm or refute their predictions. The DRTA process encourages students to be active and thoughtful readers, enhancing their comprehension.
Semantic cue
Evidence from the general sense or meaning of a written or spoken communication that aids in the identification of an unknown word.
Automaticity
Fluent performance without the conscious deployment of attention
Story map
Graphic organizer that outlines elements of fiction (ie problem, setting, solution, characters)
Predicting
Guessing what will happen next in the text based on what has already been read
Informational texts
Have unique organizational structures (ie cause and effect) and text features (ie headings and captions). Teaching these in younger grades helps students learn how to use different strategies to understand various types of informational texts.
Multisyllabic
Having more than one syllable
Phonogram
In word recognition, a graphic sequence comprised of a vowel grapheme and an ending consonant grapheme, as -ed in red, bed, fed or -ake in bake, cake, lake. Also known as "word family."
Context clue
Information from the immediate textual setting that helps identify a word or word group, as by words, phrases, sentences, illustrations, syntax, or typography.
Overgeneralization
Involves applying a particular rule of language to all instances. Example: "I breaked my truck"
Figurative Language
Language enriched by word images and figures of speech.
Phonological awareness
Metalinguistic awareness of all levels of the speech sound system, including word boundaries, stress patterns, syllables, onset-rime units, and phonemes; a more encompassing term than phoneme awareness.
Visualizing
Occurs when the reader uses the text to picture the events or details of the text
R-controlled
Pertaining to a vowel immediately followed by the consonant /r/, such that its pronunciation is affected or even dominated by the /r/.
Metalinguistic
Pertaining to an acquired awareness of language structure and function that allows one to reflect on and consciously manipulate the language.
Intonation
Pitch level of voice.
Question-Answer Relationships
QAR Way to help students realize that the answers they seek are related to the type of question that is asked; it encourages them to be strategic about their search for answers based on an awareness of what different types of questions look for.
Inferring
Reader connects what he or she already knows with clues given in the text without being directly stated
Phonetic
Referring to the nature, production, and transcription of speech sounds.
Summarizing
Retelling the important events that happened in the text
Survey-Question-Read-Recite-Review
SQ3R Selective reading technique that helps students read for a purpose.
Continuant
Speech sound that can be spoken uninterrupted until the speaker runs out of breath (/m/, /s/, /v/).
Reading fluency
Speed of reading; also, the ability to read text with sufficient speed to support comprehension.
Revision stage
Stage 3 of writing process; stage during which students add details and edit for word order and sentences structure
Editing stage
Stage 4 of writing process, stage during which students correct spelling and punctuation errors
Publishing stage
Stage 5 of writing process; students publish and share work
Prewriting stage
Stage one of writing process; stage during which students brainstorm ideas and decide on/narrow their topic
Drafting stage
Stage two of writing process; stage during which students write sentences and paragraphs
Early alphabetic stage
Students understand that letters represent speech, they use letters to represent words.
ESL students
Students who are learning English as a second language; Limited English Proficiency (LEP) students.
LEP students
Students with limited English proficiency; students who are learning English as a second language (ESL).
Decodable text
Text in which a large proportion of words (approximately 70%-80%) comprise sound-symbol relationships that have already been taught; used to provide practice with specific decoding skills and to form a bridge between learning phonics and applying phonics in independent reading of text.
Narrative text
Text, usually with the structure of a story, that tells about sequences of fictional or real events and is often contrasted with expository text.
Morphology
The study of meaningful units of language and how they are combined in word formation.
Etymology
The study of the history and development of the structures and meanings of words; derivation
Phonics
The study of the relationships between letters and the sounds they represent; also used to describe reading instruction that teaches sound-symbol correspondences.\n\nWriting examples of words in a word family help students use their knowledge of letter-sound correspondence and word patterns.
Alphabetic Principle
The use of letters and letter combinations to represent phonemes in an orthography.
Expressive Vocabulary
The vocabulary used to communicate in speaking and writing.
Syllable
Unit of pronunciation that is organized around a vowel; it may or may not have consonants before or after the vowel.
Sight words
Words that are known as wholes, do not have to be sounded out to be recognized quickly, and are often taught and learned as "exception," "out-law," or "nonphonetic" words.
Consonant digraph
Written letter combination that corresponds to one speech sound but is not represented by either letter alone, such as th or ph.
