Elementary Education K-6 FTCE

Elementary Education K-6 FTCE Alliteration the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. Analogy a comparison between things that are alike in some ways Antonyms words that have opposite meanings Argument A statement put forth and supported by evidence Automaticity accurate, speedy word recognition; is necessary, but not sufficient, for fluency development. Blending Mixing sounds in words smoothly while reading. Buddy Reading Students of different grade levels reading the same text together. Chunking Breaking words into smaller units Clerihew a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a person. Climax Most exciting moment of the story; turning point. Comprehension The ability to understand what you have read, seen, or heard. Concepts of Print Examples of letters, words, directionality, punctuation. Consonant Blend Two or more consecutive consonants which retain their individual sounds. Creative Writing Writing that uses the writer's imagination. Decode To sound out words; segmenting and blending phonemes. Descriptive Writing Writing that paints a picture of a person, place, thing, or idea. Digraph Two consonant letters used together to create a sound unlike their individual sounds. Diamante A poem with seven lines in a diamond shape. Emergent Literacy Earliest phase of literacy development. Encode The process of changing oral language into writing. Evaluation A judgment of the significance, worth, or value of a student's work.