Medical Metaphor
This assessment is like a thermometer and provides a schoolwide temperature check indicating which students are at risk.
What is a screener?
A student who speaks a language other than English at home and scored below Commanding on the NYSITELL.
Who is an English Language Learner?
Diagnostic assessments allow a teacher to determine a student's individual strengths, weaknesses, and skills prior to determining this.
What is an intervention program?
Strategic, targeted and evidence-based interventions aligned to student need based on multiple sources of data provided to a group of up to 6 students.
What are Tier II interventions?
Every student receives this instruction on a daily basis from their classroom/content teacher.
What is Tier I core instruction?
This assessment is like sending the culture to the lab so it reveals the specific health issue (example: Flu, Covid, Strep, etc).
What is a diagnostic?
A student who received a 3 on the ELA exam and an Expanding proficiency level in the same year.
Who is a Former ELL?
Diagnostics are administered to students who are below and well-below benchmark after this assessment.
What is a screener?
Often remedial, as these supports are implemented for students not responding to Tier II supports or who demonstrate a more intense need.
What are Tier III interventions?
These assessments occur in authentic learning experiences and drive daily instruction.
What are formative assessments?
This is like the prescription the doctor provides for a specific health ailment.
What is an intervention?
These students are exempt from any formal screener administration in English until they have received at least 5 months of instruction.
Who are newly-arrived ELLs who tested Entering or Emerging on the NYSITELL?
The Roswell Chall Diagnostic can be used to identify a student's need with this foundational skill.
What is phonics (decoding)?
This type of assessment is used to evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention.
What is progress monitoring?
This period in the day gives the opportunity for students who are at risk to get their needs met while other students get a form of enrichment.
What is a What I Need (WIN) Period?
This person in the school is like a therapist who sees the patient on a regular schedule and provides the necessary therapy to a patient.
What is an interventionist?
These factors include: cultural & linguistic identities/backgrounds, previous & current educational, experiences, observations of student behavior, etc.
What are "qualitative" factors impacting ELLs' performance?
The Yopp-Singer Inventory Diagnostic can pinpoint a student's readiness in this subskill of reading.
What is phonemic awareness?
This phonics-based program can be used for core instruction and across the tiers of intervention for students in grades K-3.
What is FUNdations?
After there has been no progress in Tiers II or III for an individual student. This recommendation can be made for this particular student.
What is referral to special education?
This is like the follow-up visits to the doctor's office to see if the patient is getting better.
What is progress monitoring?
These ELLs share as many commonalities as possible like same home language, same years of service, and same literacy level in home language so that we can compare progress.
What are "true peers"?
The acronym "IRI" in Roe & Burns IRI Diagnostic which assesses a student's reading comprehension and reading accuracy stands for this.
What is an Informal Reading Inventory?
The acronym of the commonly used D24 intervention program known as S.P.I.R.E. stands for this.
What is Specialized Program Individualizing Reading Excellence?
According to screener data, a fifth grade student has scored well-below grade level in fluency, then this assessment is administered.
What is a diagnostic?