| A | B |
| Content-specific words | Words with definitions specific to a content area - words not used in everyday language |
| Homographs | words with the same spellings but different pronunciation and meanings |
| Analogies | correspondence in some respects between things otherwise dissimilar |
| Cloze | cues for meaning of a word |
| Sight words | the ability to automatically recognize words |
| Cognition | Knowing throught processes |
| Intonation | the rise, fall and stress ina voice and the pauses in speaking |
| Jargon | nonsensical or incoherent talk |
| Syntactic | referring to the ordering of words that makes meaningful phrases and sentences |
| Morphemes | prefixes, suffixes, and root words |
| Metacognitive | the strategies of knowledge |