Learner Variability
Supports
English Language Proficiency Levels
Performance Level Descriptors
Ellevation
100

The component of UDL that stimulates interest and motivation for learning

What is Engagement?

100

Gradually removed supports that allow students to demonstrate increasingly independent proficiency with grade-level instruction.

What are scaffolds?

100

The number of English Language Proficiency levels

What are six?

100

The PLDs span these three dimensions of language.

What are discourse, sentence, and word/phrase?

100

One thing you can find on the Ellevation Dashboard

Several correct responses

200

This component of UDL presents information and content in different ways.

What is Representation?

200

Changes to curriculum, setting, approaches, interventions, and/or personnel that are significantly different than those provided to typical peers. Provided by or overseen by an individual with a specific teaching certification.

What are modifications?

200

The corresponding number to "developing"

What is three?

200

The organization of language is part of this language dimension.

What is discourse?

200

How to login to Ellevation

What is Clever?

300

The component of UDL that differentiates the ways students can express what they know

What is Action and Expression?

300

Changes made to instruction and/or assessment that do not change the expectations for performance or change the construct that is being measured.


What are accommodations?

300

The corresponding level of English Language Proficiency for number one

What is entering?

300

The precision of language is in this language dimension.

What is word/phrase?

300

Where to learn more about academic language

What are modules?

400

A framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn.

What is Universal Design for Learning (UDL)?

400

You won't find money here, but there will be vocabulary.

What is a word bank?

400

Use of phrases and short sentences

What is beginning?

400

PLDs illustrate a continuum of this for multilingual learners. 

What is language development?

400

The name of the tab where you can find activities

What is the strategies tab?

500

These need to be removed so that instruction can benefit all students.

What are barriers?

500

The following is an example of a type of frame.

The square has ___sides/angles.

What is a sentence frame?

500
Oral or written communication in English is comparable to English-proficient peers

What is Reaching?

500

Something a PLD can be used for

What is designing and scaffolding classroom instruction?

more than 1 correct answer


500

The levels of support provided in each Ellevation activity.

What are high, moderate, and light supports?

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