Collaborative Exit Exam Notes and Study Guide
Created BY STUDENTS FOR STUDENTS

Collaborative Exit Exam Notes: Created by students to help students

1. Phonic book = generalizations

2. Reading is a highly complex act. It includes two major components-a process and a product

3. Emergent Literacy = development occurs from within the child, it happens over time, exists within the child

4. Regressions = eye movements back to previously read word or phrases in order to reread

5. Stories about experience can be dictated by whole class, a group, or a single child

6. Experience Chart = dictated story chart

7. Alphabetic principle = concept that letters represent speech

8. Phonemic Awareness = an understanding that speech consists of a series of small sound units.

9. Invented Spellings = an attempt to spell a word whose spelling is not already known

10. Analogies = comparisons of two similar relationships, stated in the form; author is to book as artist is to paint

11. Bandwagon technique = urge to do what others are doing

12. Basal reader = series contain: textbooks, teacher's guides, and supplementary materials

13. Critical reading = reading for evaluation

14. Figurative language = non-literal language

15. Fixations = stops made by the eyes during reading in order to take in words and phrases and react to them

16. Grapheme = a written symbol that represents a phoneme

17. Homographs = words that have identical spellings but sound different and have different meanings (wind & wind)

18. Homonyms = pairs or groups of words that are spelled different but are pronounced the same (paws & pause)

19. Prewriting = first stage of the writing process - author prepares for writing by talking, reading, and thinking about the piece; organizing ideas - developing a plan

20. Synonyms = same or similar meaning

21. KWL Chart = the K &  W take place before reading; the L is what they have learned and is done after reading

22. Character journal = written in 1st person voice - diary entry from viewpoint of a character in a story

23. Interpretive reading = to read between the lines - making inferences

24. Creative reading = to read beyond the lines

25. Individualized reading approach = children move at their own pace, select own reading material

26. Literature-based approaches = corebooks, tradebooks, themes, individual reading approach, literature circles

27. Language experience approach = uses the children's experiences as the basis for reading material

28. Writing workshop = begins with a mini lesson

29. International Reading Association = publication

30. Efferent reading = reading to obtain information

31. Efferent listening = listening to obtain information

32. Checklists, anecdotal records, rating scales = kid watching = daily observation and assessment of students