Educational Terminology Flashcards

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Gradual release model

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Instruction that shifts from teacher modeling to joint responsibility between teachers and students, leading to independent practice by the learner.

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Letter-Naming Fluency (LNF)

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Assesses students' ability to identify individual letters and say letter names.

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Morphemic analysis

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Strategy to determine word meanings by examining meaningful parts like prefixes, suffixes, and roots.

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Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS)

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Provides targeted support for struggling students and early intervention to address academic and behavior challenges.

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Nonsense Word Fluency (NWF)

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Measures a student's ability to decode individual phonemes and blend them together to read.

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Phoneme

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The smallest unit of speech distinguishing one word from another, like the letter /p/ in "map."

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Phonemic awareness

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Ability to notice, think about, and work with individual sounds in spoken words, including blending and segmenting sounds.

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Phonological awareness

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Ability to recognize and manipulate spoken parts of sentences and words, such as rhyming and segmenting words.

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Phonemic-Segmentation Fluency (PSF)

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Measures the ability to segment spoken words into their basic sound segments, or phonemes.

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Response to Intervention (RtI)

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A multi-tier approach to early identification and support of students with learning and behavior needs.