The act of deriving a generalization from the specific process involved in recognizing certain unfamiliar words and applying it to other unknown words.

Relating to the active exchange of ideas between reader and text or speaker and listener to create meaning.

A lesson plan that a teacher determines, after collecting and analyzing educational data, is the most beneficial to a particular student’s learning needs.

A tool for differentiating the learning processes of different learners to achieve common goals in a lesson.

Specific sets of information that is sufficiently small to learn through direct instruction.

A method in which students practice what the teacher has demonstrated while the teacher remains involved.

Purposeful and continuous questioning about past events to resolve educational issues and improve one’s pedagogical approach.

A student’s degree of preparedness to learn a specific skill or concept.

Questions designed to help students with dynamic thinking by, first, reassuring them that not knowing an answer is acceptable and, second, encouraging them to come up with strategies to find the answer.

A pattern or process which can provide a model or framework.