AVID Excel

Strategies

100

It has three rings and is meant to organize your learning materials.

Binder

200

You write numbers next to them to be able to talk about and refer to its content.

An article's paragraphs

300

This is when you circle, underline, highlight, and write in the margins. It helps you understand what you are reading.

Marking the text

400

You add important dates and action items to help remember and stay on track.

Your planner

500

The purpose of AVID Excel.

Improve academic confidence by accelerating student's English language acquisition, introducing them to a path to AVID, college preparatory coursework, and future student selected endeavors.

Scholar Groups

100

Sharing your name, knowledge, information, and opinion/confusion with group members.

30 second OPENING speech

200

This form organizes your knowledge on a reading article and helps you expand your learning

Scholar Group Form

300

Sharing your name, knowledge, information, and new learning/summary.

30 second CLOSING speech

400

These members ask questions, seek clarification, and build connections.

Group members

500

This person plays an important role in facilitating a collaborative learning process, encouraging participation and higher level thinking.

Tutors

Scholar Forms

100

When you don't understand something about what was said, an idea mentioned, context/background, or key vocabulary

Point of confusion

200

Your thoughts on something based on what was mentioned in the article

Your informed opinion

300

Definition of a text dependent question

Definition:

• Requires textual evidence, both stated and inferred, to deepen understanding and rigorous discourse in the classroom. 
• Can be answered by the text.

Text-dependent questions require students to:

• Provide evidence from the text.
• Make inferences based on what the text says.

400

Text Dependent Questions can be about these topics

Word

What is the meaning of the word "________" in paragraph ___?

Sentence Phrase

What does the author mean by "_______ (sentence/phrase) ________" in paragraph_____?

Paragraph

Why are statistics/anecdotes/quotations about _____________ used in paragraph ___?

How does _______________ support the main idea/author’s claim that _____________?

Segments

How do paragraphs ___ to ___  about ________________support the main idea/author’s claim that _____________?

Entire Text

Why does the author suggest that ____________ will _______________?

How does the author support the main idea/author’s claim that __________________?

Why does the author believe that ____________________?

500

Four steps of the scholar group process

1. Student Presenter writes their TDQ on the chart paper and begins with a 30-second opening speech.  

2. Group Members ask questions using the Inquiry Guide until the TDQ has been answered. 

3. Student Presenter ends with a 30-second closing speech and shares new understanding of the text.

4. Tutor selects a new Student Presenter. Repeat the process.

Trivia

100

Waldo Middle School was built in this year.

1957

200

Waldo was the first secondary school in Oregon to institute a unified dress code in this year.

1997

300

Average number of students at Waldo.

1,150

400

Number of school's nationwide that have the AVID program

8,000

500

Number of students AVID serves.

2 million