| A | B |
| Receptive vocabulary | a bank of words a student can understand during conversation |
| expressive vocabulary | vocabulary students use during speech or writing |
| Sight words | words that do not conform to pronunciation rules |
| sight vocabulary | words that students recognize in half a second or less |
| context clues | rhetorical knowledge, schema, and picture clues that a student can use to figure out unknown words |
| visual analysis of monosyllabic words | the ability to break words into smaller known parts to figure out unknown words |
| structural analysis | the ability to distinguish frequently used prefixes and suffixes from root words and the knowledge of how they affect the meaning of words |
| morphemic structure | understanding how root words with different affixes of speech. |