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This paper will cover different terms that have been used during my time at North Columbus Elementary School. The terms used in this paper come from a fourth-grade classroom with the primary focus of English language arts and social studies. There are also a few terms from a fourth-grade math class. Most of the terms are ones that the students are learning in class and others are terms that are new to me. The information provided in this paper will be the terms, definitions, “types” of terms, description of terms, and how the terms affect my understanding of teaching terminology. The first new term that I learned is Achieve 3000. Achieve 3000 is a term used to identify a reading comprehension program that is used by the school to assess …show more content…

Another form of poetry the students have learned about it haiku. A haiku is three stanzas, the first stanza is five syllables, the second is seven, and the third is five again. The students were also informed that a haiku does not have to rhyme and typically talks about nature. Students have also been taught about the different types of genres. Genres are a form of literature text. Two other terms that students learned are terms that can be used in English or other subjects, the terms are main idea and supporting detail. The main idea is what the topic or subject is about and the support detail is an example or reason of the main idea. The students also learned the English/language terms which describes the different kinds of sentences and sentence endings, interrogative, imperative, declarative, and exclamatory. An interrogative sentence asks a question and should be ended with a question mark. An imperative sentence ends with a period or an exclamation mark. This is because imperative sentences give a command or makes a request. When it comes to declarative sentences the person is generally stating an opinion or making a statement and ends with a period. The last type of sentence is exclamatory. Exclamatory sentences express and reflect emotions. The emotions can be happy, sad, excited, and etcetera. This type of sentence will always end with an exclamation point. I was also able to observe the students in their math class. One of the math terms

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