General language

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semantics

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The study of meanings by focusing on the relation between signifiers, such as words, phrases, signs and symbols, and what they stand for, their denotata.

A method in which students and teachers read together. As the teacher reads aloud from an enlarged text, children connect visual to oral language, grow in their awareness of how print works, enjoy ...

shared writing

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A form of modeled writing. The teacher listens to what the students say and scribes for them. For example, she may create complete sentences from a brainstormed list of words. The teacher supports ...

skim

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To visually review a given passage to gather the main ideas of the text.

social context

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The conditions of human society under which something happens.

socratic seminar

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Not simply class discussion. A Socratic seminar fosters active learning as participants explore and evaluate the ideas, issues, and values in a particular text. A good seminar consists of four ...