Vocabulary Journal 2
What is it? providing appropriate resources for individual's needs to work towards an equal outcome for all
What is it like? Justice, fairness, equality 
Examples: 1. Giving a bandaid to a student with a cut is equity, but provided a bandaid to all students is equality.
Example: 2. Affirmative action gives minority students special consideration to be involved with organizations they were previously excluded from.
Nonexamples: Both 1. Segregation and 2. Redlining alienate and remove resources from minorities
telegraphic speech
What is it? saying only the important, content words
What is it like? texting language
Examples Both 1. "more milk" and 2. "go car" are telegraphic speech because they involve only a couple words and do not include enough words to make a grammatically complete sentence.
Nonexamples: 1. Speaking in full sentences includes more than content words, and follows rules of grammar. 2. Babbling does not include actual words.
prepositions
What is it? Words that show position before the noun in a sentence
What is it like? the grammatical structure of English
Examples: 1. "My purse is in the car." The preposition "in" comes before the noun "car". 2. "She went to the store next to the park" The preposition "next to" comes before the noun "park".
Nonexamples: 1. Postpositions are the opposite of prepositions because the position words go after the noun in a sentence. 2. Sindhi, Hindustani, Turkish, Hungarian, Korean, and Japanese langauges use postpositions as part of their grammar rules rather than prepositions.
What is it? specific errors in speech of adult second language learners
What is it like? a language bad habit
Example: 1. "I have 20 years old." ( Learners use the verb to have instead of the verb to be)
- "Do you know where is she?" (Learner doesn’t know how to make embedded questions)
Nonexamplse: Both 1. dialect and 2. vernacular are differences in vocabulary and grammar usage based on culture rather than the process of learning a second language.
What is it? an emergent bilingual who has applied phonics skills to pronounce words while they read texts, but do not comprehend their reading due to the words not being part of their oral vocabulary
What is it like? memorizing the words to a song
Example: 1. Being able to say "dinoflagellates", but not knowing what it is means your reading is accurate without having comprehension.
- Reading with accuracy but not at an appropriate rate, without expression, and ignoring punctuation means you are reading without comprehending the text.
Nonexamples: 1. Fluent readers are not word callers because they are using an expression and rate that shows they understand the meaning behind the words. 2. Dyslexic readers are not word callers because they struggle to accuratly read the words on the page.