General language

General language

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General language

A developmental behavior observed in young children who are not yet reading. Children imitate reading a story they have heard many times. They recreate the text from memory or with the help of the ...

reading log

Language; General language

Written account of student reading including reflection.

reading recovery skills

Language; General language

Skills enumerated in the Reading Recovery intervention program for first graders.

reading strategies

Language; General language

Mental strategies used by readers to help them make sense of what they read. Some strategies enable readers to determine the exact word (decoding or word identification); others enable them to ...

reflection

Language; General language

Serious and careful consideration or concentrated thought regarding one’s work.

retelling

Language; General language

A strategy in which a student retells or writes the action of a story in his or her own words. Retelling can take many forms and be used for different purposes, such as recalling the sequence of ...

rubric

Language; General language

An established and written-down set of criteria for scoring or rating students' work on tests portfolios, writing samples, or other performance tasks; also known as “scoring guides. ”