Literacy+Lingo

This page will serve as a guide to the "lingo" used throughout the district with regard to various components of our literacy initiative. The goal is for all of us to have a "common vocabulary."

Any member of the Literacy Support Network may contribute to this page by adding concepts/terms or by adding definitions to listed concepts/terms. Feel free to add a concept or term even if you aren't sure what it is - someone else will be able to add an explanation and/or relevant links for more information.

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The [|6 1Trait Writing] framework is a tool for teachers to learn and use a common language to refer to characteristics of "good" writing. The framework allows teachers and students to use a common language that focuses their attention on areas of strength and weakness as they strive to improve writing. The [|traits] are **ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, conventions,** and **presentation**.
 * 6 + 1 Traits**

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 * ABLE-** A Balanced Literacy Education
 * ARI -** Accelerated Reading Intervention

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=C= Cornell Notes [|CRISS]**- CR**eating **I**ndependence **T**hrough **S**tudents and **S**trategies

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=E= [|ELPS]**-** English Language Proficiency Standards
 * ELL-** English Language Learner

=F= Formative Assessment
 * Frayer Model**- a graphic organizer used to help students deepen their understanding of a key concept or content-specific vocabulary term by analyzing its essential and nonessential characteristics, drawing an illustration, or giving examples and non-examples. (Frayer, Frederick, and Klausmeier, 1969)

=G= Graphic Organizers

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 * HAPG**- HISD's curriculum **H**orizontal **A**lignment **P**lanning **G**uide

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 * K-W-L chart--** a graphic organizer used to help students predict and connect new information with prior knowledge. (Ogle, 1986)

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 * [|Lexile]**- a common measure that is used as an education tool connecting readers with reading materials.

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 * Marzano-** designed research-based strategies for increased student achievement.

=N= [|Neuhaus]provides professional development for educators in research-based methods of literacy instruction. Neuhaus training provides teachers with research-based strategies and materials to teach reading, writing, and spelling to all students.
 * Neuhaus**

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 * PLC-** Professional Learning Community
 * Protocols**- Framework to deepen understanding of a text and examine student's work according to that text.

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 * Reading First -** Program that focuses on putting proven reading instruction in classrooms
 * Readers/Writers Workshop-** Instructional model to promote literacy in an ELA classroom
 * RAFT**- a writing to learn strategy that allows students to process information by writing about it in a nontraditional format. (**R**ole**A**udience**F**ormat**T**opic) (Vandevanter, 1982)

=S= Summative Assessment
 * SSI**- Student Success Initiative
 * Strategies**- an intentional plan that is flexible and can be adapted to meet the demands of the situation.

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 * [|TALA]-** Texas Adolescent Literacy Academies
 * TMSFA-** Texas Middle School Fluency Assessment
 * TPRI/TEJAS Lee**- Texas Primary Reading Inventory/Spanish Assessment

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