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Imperative sentence Involves request,suggestion, advice, or commands. They appear to be missing a subject Example: leave the keys. Take the cannoli Interrogative sentence Asks a question, ends with a question mark Example: do I have your number? Is it raining outside? Declarative sentence Sentence in a form of a statement, ends with a period Example: the puppy looks tired. Exclamatory sentence Expresses great emotion, ends in with ! Example: the house is on fire! Compound subject Two or more subjects joined by and agree with a plural verb Example: Karen and John ride their bikes. Macaroni and cheese is ben's favorite food Complex sentence Independent and at least one dependent clause Example: a rainbow appeared after the storm passed. Although Tom reads novels, Jack reads comics. Digraph Combination of two letters representing one sound, as in ph and ey. Example: ph-easant, r-oo-t, sh-ine Phonemes Sounds in words Diphthong A sound formed by a combination of two vowels in a single syllable. Example: weird, boycott, scout, mouse, cow (au) Acronym A word usually formed from initial letters of words in a phrase. Example: SCUBA= Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus Alliteration Common initial sounds in words, spoken or written Example: Mrs. Merck makes muffins Anthropomorphism Inanimate objects having human qualities Assonance The repetition of the vowel sounds but not the consonants sounds Example: fleet feet sweep Caldecott award America library association gives this award to most distinguished picture book for children Fable Short take in prose or verse to teach a moral, specially a tale using animals and inanimate objects as characters Fallacy Any unsound agreement or form of reasoning, illogical reasoning Foreshadowing Clues are given to what will happen next Haiku Major hype of Japanese poetry, specifically a form of verse written in seventeen syllables with three lines of 5-7-5 syllables Fixation pause Eye movement stop Holistic approach A teaching learning approach that emphasizes wholes of subject matter and the integration of parts with wholes Homograph A word with the same spelling as another word, whether or not pronounced alike Example: too- to Homonym Word with the same oral written form as another Example: bear(animal) and bear( support) Homophone Same pronunciation as another word but doesn't matter if spelled alike Example: scale ( of fish) and scale (ladder) Limerick 5 line poem written with one couplet ( two line rhyme poem) and one triplet( three lined rhyme poem). Pattern a a b b lines 1,2,5 contains three beats and 3,4 two beats Metacognition Knowing about knowing. Principles used in the study about thought process. Meter Rhythmic pattern created by regular alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables Onset The initial part of a word Example: The M in the word Mat Phoneme segmentation Refers to the ability to break a word into its separate sounds, saying each sound as it is counted Example: the ability to identify four distinct sounds in the word clap Open syllable Ends in a vowel sound and the sound is long Example: vehicle, remembering, apron Orthographic word processing Words Five Dime Cute She is able to visualize letter pattern in the words and transfer this knowledge to reading and writing new words such as hide, take and robe What Current trend in surrounding new language learning? New research suggest that when English learners receive instruction with explicit teaching of learning strategies, the learners become more efficient and effective learners in the second language Affix A word Part that is placed at the beginning or end of a word to alter its meaning Rate Refers to the speed at which text is read Purpose, genre, difficulty and prior knowledge All affect how quickly the text is read