The exchange of meaning through various communication systems.
The variety of ways in which different sensory pathways are recognized and utilized to provide a range of diverse methods and authentic learning environments for students to demonstrate their knowledge.
A form of expression in which students can respond to stories and demonstrate their content-related knowledge through role-playing, acting, and dramatic performance.
Skills associated with the acquisition of knowledge and the processing of information through thought, such as reasoning, intuition, perception, imagination, inventiveness, creativity, problem-solving, and oral and written expression.
A teaching idea which allows students to hear and pronounce words or phrases unfamiliar to them before listening to or reading a story. An example of advance organizers are chants.
A verbal act in which the speaker replaces a sound within a word with another.
Learners in their beginning stages of writing. They are often young children engaged in experimentations with the written language, through scribbling for example, to convey a written message.
A structural tool in which a reader determines meaning through textual clues and predicting words which could make sense in the sentence.
In IRIs, an examination into the type of signals that a reader mistakenly makes to discover a pattern as well as to ascertain whether the mistaken cues impact the meaning of the text.