| A | B |
| Content words | words with definitions in general use in everyday language |
| Homophones | words with the same pronunciation but different spelling and meanings |
| Response cards | cards that provide a teacher with immedate information about a child's response |
| Zone of proximal development | accounding to Vygotsky, the sone where learners can achieve success with guidance |
| Schwa | a variant of a particular sound caused by a reduction in stress onthe sound in a word |
| Expressive communication | to express information |
| Corpulent | fatness |
| Discourse | conversation |
| Semantic | the meaning |
| concept | a general idea or understaning |
| Explicit | clearly defined |