Academic Vocabulary

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Accuracy

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Reading words in text with no errors.

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Academically Engaged

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Students are academically engaged when they are participating in activities/instruction in a meaningful way and understand the tasks in which they are involved.

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Advanced Phonics

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Strategies for decoding multisyllabic words that include morphology and information about the meaning, pronunciation, and parts of speech of words gained from knowledge of prefixes, roots, and suffixes.

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Affix

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A general term that refers to prefixes an suffixes.

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After Reading Comprehension Strategies

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Strategies that require the reader to actively transform key information in texts that has been read (example: summarizing and retelling).

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Aligned Materials

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Student materials (texts, activities, manipulatives, homework, etc.) that reinforce classroom instruction of specific skills in reading.

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Alliteration

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The repetition of the initial phoneme of each word in connected text (example: Harry the happy hippo hula-hoops with Henrietta).

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Alphabet Principle

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The concept that letters and letter combinations represent individual phonemes in written words.