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Teaching of Reading and Writing Skills PDF 414 KBUpdated 23 Oct 2026
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  1. Acronym :A word made up of the initial letters of a phrase, e.g. ‘NATO’, ‘WJEC’.
  2. Active Reading :The first essential step to comprehension, active reading forces you to see what you’re reading, and to look closely at what’s in the text. Active reading involves the questions “Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?” Active readers mark up passages by identifying unfamiliar vocabulary, underlining key words and ideas, and recording their reactions and questions in the margins.
  3. Analogy :Comparing two sets of words to show some common similarity between the sets. When done as a vocabulary exercise this requires producing one of the words (e.g., cat is to kitten: as dog is to
  4. Bloom’s Taxonomy :A system for categorizing levels of abstraction of questions that commonly occur in educational settings. Includes the following competencies: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.
  5. Brainstorming :Brainstorming: Collecting ideas by thinking freely and openly about all the possibilities; used often with groups.
  6. Cause and Effect :Ideas are arranged so readers can see which events, or series of events, caused something to take place, or what effect an event or series of events had.
  7. Chronological Order :Ideas are arranged in the order in which they occurred (or in the order in which they should occur)
  8. Cognates :Words that are related to each other by virtue of being derived from a common origin (e.g., 'decisive' and 'decision' or education (English) and educación (Spanish).
  9. Coherence :Coherence is the orderly relationship of ideas, each leading smoothly and logically to the next. You must weave your ideas together so skillfully that the reader can easily see how one idea connects to another and to the central thought. This central thought, of course, is expressed in the topic sentence for a paragraph and in the thesis for an essay.
  10. Cohesion :Cohesion is the grammatical and lexical linking within a text or sentence that holds a text together and gives it meaning. It is related to the broader concept of coherence.
  11. Composition :Composition: A process in which a writer's ideas are combined into one unified piece of writing.
  12. Conditional :A tense of a verb which expresses the idea that what happens depends on something else. Conditional forms often involve conjunctions such as ‘if’ or ‘then’ and verb forms such as ‘would’ or ‘may’.
  13. Connotation :The implied or suggested meaning.
  14. Decoding: :The ability to translate a word from print to speech, usually by employing knowledge of sound symbol correspondences; also the act of deciphering a new word by sounding it out.
  15. Deductive reasoning :Deductive reasoning: The act of reasoning from a general idea to a specific point or conclusion.
  16. Denotation :The exact or dictionary meaning.
  17. Emphasis :Emphasis: Placing greater stress on the most important idea in a piece of writing by giving it special treatment; emphasis can be achieved by placing the important idea in a special position, by repeating a key word or phrase, or by simply writing more about it.
  18. Etymology: :The origin of a word and the historical development of its meaning (e.g., the origin of our word etymology comes from late Middle English: from Old French ethimologie, via Latin from Greek etumologia, from etumologos ‘student of etymology,’ from etumon, neuter singular of etumos ‘true’).
  19. Explicit :Explicit instruction involves direct explanation. The teacher’s language is concise, specific, and related to the objective. Another characteristic of explicit instruction is a visible instructional approach which includes a high level of teacher/student interaction. Explicit instruction means that the actions of the teacher are clear, unambiguous, direct, and visible. This makes it clear what the students are to do and learn. Nothing is left to guess work.

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