Lit 2 Idaho State Test (Questions + Answers) Solved

1. A cumulative account of selected behavior, as of that of a student noted by a teacher over time. 2. A tool to assess students' precise reading behaviors (see Clay. [1993] An Observation Survey of Early Literacy Assessment or [2000] Running Records for Classroom Teachers). - Running Record 1. A group of words sharing a common phonic element, as /it/ spelled ite in bite/kite/despite. 2. A group of words sharing the same root or base, as phon- in phonemic phonation, telephone. - Word Family 1. A typed or written record usually kept daily. 2. A chronological relating of events 3. A periodical published by a learned society, association, institution ect. 4. A newspaper, especially a daily one. 5. A collection of student writing in response to reading. Students widely used in integrated language arts of classroom provide data for authentic assessment. - Journal 1. A word with a different origin and meaning but the same oral or written from as one of more other words, as bear (an animal) vs. bear (to support) vs. bare (exposed), or row (a line) vs. row (to propel a boat). 2. Inpopular usage, a word with the same punctuation and spelling as another word but different in meaning, as bay (a body of water) vs. bay (a part of a window) - Homonym 1. An accepted practice in spoken or written language. 2. An accepted way of creating an effect, as the soliloquy in drama, the flashback in fiction. 3. A set of rules for group behavior; custom. 4. One of the traits of writing - Conventions/Mechanics 1. An approach to language learning in which students' oral compositions are transcribed and used as materials of instruction for reading, writing, speaking, and listening; experience approach.2. A curriculum that is emphasizes the interrelationship of such modes of language experience. - Language Experience Approach (LEA) 1. 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. 2. The completion of incomplete utterances as an instructional strategy to develop reading or listening comprehension with respect to sensitivity to style, attention during extended passages, ect. - Cloze 1. In discourse analysis, a measure of comprehension. 2. In miscue analysis, the process in which the reader, having orally read a story, describes what happened in it. The purpose of including retelling in miscue analysis is to gain insight into the reader's ability to interact with, interpret, and draw conclusions from the text. - Retelling 1. In general, a story, actual or fictional, expressed in writing. 2. Specifically, an "expression of event-based experiences that are either a. stored memory or cognitively constructed, b. selected by the writer to transmit to the audience/reader, or c. organized in knowledge structures that can be anticipated by the audience (Graesser et al., 1991)." - Narrative Text 1. One of two or more words in language that have highly similar meanings, as sadness/grief; sorrow ect. 2. A word used in a figurative sense, as the deep for water; a heel for an untrustworthy person, ect. - Synonym 1. Oral verbalization. 2. In literacy instruction, "a metacognitive technique or strategy in which the teacher verbalizes aloud while reading a selection orally, thus modeling the process of comprehension. - Think-Aloud