School Connection
Skipping Rules
Math Program
Phonics Program
Writing Program
100
This piece teaches students how to respond to chapter questions, create thesis statements, and summarize ideas.
What is Getting the Main Idea?
100
For Specific Skills curriculum, students must achieve 4 consecutive units at what mastery to skip ahead?
What is 90% or better?
100
Each student much take this in order to move on to the next math skill.
What is a pre/post test?
100
This pre-test for the phonics program determines a students starting level.
What is the Linkmans Phonics diagnostic test?
100
This test is given to a student when they are first assigned the writing program in order to determine their skill set.
Writing Review Test
200
The Merrill Skilltext Series works on these types of school skills for students in Kindergarten through 7th grade. Give 3 examples.

Understanding consonant letter sound association

Understanding short and long vowel sound association

Breaking words into sounds

Recognizing sight words

Reading comprehension Vocabulary

Study skills

200
Students working in SRA Rate and RFU can skip 4-5 units ahead by achieving 80% or better, true or false?
What is True?
200
Each student must achieve what level of mastery of 5 consecutive units of practice before moving on to the next math subskill?
What is 90% or better?
200
This book is used to determine what book and what lesson to instruct for the phonics program.
What is the Phonics Sub-skill Binder?
200
The writing program focuses on three main areas, Capitalization, Punctuation, and this category ?
What is Usage?
300
"How to Spell" teaches students auditory discrimination of word sounds in order to increase what three skills?
Spelling, Phonetic Rules, and Learning Word Parts (Prefix/Suffix/Root).
300
In order to skip in Reading for Concepts and SRA Power, students must achieve 80% or better on how many consecutive units before skipping ahead 8-10 units?
What is 8 Consecutive units?
300
True or False: Each student must take a pre AND post test of each math skill even after receiving 100% on the pre test.
What is FALSE?
300
The acceleration rules for the phonics program allows the student to move on to the next subskill or pre-test after this percent of mastery.
What is 100% mastery?
300
These two school skills are taught within the Writing Program. (Writing is not a valid answer)
What is Capitalization, Punctuation, Usage, Language Arts, Outlining, Proofreading, Sentences?
400
This comprehensive curriculum piece prepares students grades 3.0-8.9 to take standardized tests by developing reading comprehension and test taking strategies to answer test questions.
What is CARS (Comprehensive Assessment for Reading Strategies)?
400
Name the 8 Specific Skills curricula in which students can skip 90% or better on 4 consecutive units.
Getting the Main Idea, Getting the Facts, Drawing Conclusions, Using the Context, Identifying Inferences, Locating the Answer, Following Directions, Detecting the Sequence.
400
Students should complete their math activities with a marker in the math book: true or false?
What is False! Students must complete math practice in their notebooks.
400
This piece in the phonics program is tactile and requires the student to match up the letter to a picture.
Step Board
400
All students must complete skills 130-190 and should achieve mastery of what percentage on two sub skills
What is 90%?
500
This curriculum piece teaches students 9th grade and above to complete essay tests, recall important information for test questions as well as build reading rate.
What is Topics from the Restless?
500
There is no skipping in vocabulary and sounds, as well as these two other pieces of curriculum.
What is RCVSM and Project Achievement?
500
How many math skills should a student master in 1 month?
What is 4-5 math skills?
500
This phonics piece is utilized primarily with students who are auditory learners and it requires the use of cards with magnetic strips.
Tutorette/Califone
500
Skills 200-270 are considered these types of skills to be completed within the Writing Program.
What is optional?
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