ESL
Spelling
RC Strategies
Assessment
Beyond the Blueprint
100
Students receive instruction in their native language along with an ESL approach. Choices ESL Approach-Bilingual Education-Immersion-SIOP
What is Bilingual Education?
100
A second grader writes the following sentence. Identify what instructional decision the teacher should make. The thre bile gotes went to et grass. Which of the following vowel patterns should be worked with? R-controlled vowels, vowel diphthongs, silent-e vCe
What are vowel diphthongs?
100
Knowing that it is a transition for students to move from picture storybooks to chapter books with few illustrations, a third grade teacher does a think aloud to describe what he pictures in his mind as he reads the text. He also describes how the picture changes from line to line, based on the words read.
What is visualizing or mental imagery?
100
The following is an example of this type of testing strategy: If we see a part of a person or object, we tend to fill in the missing portions. If someone omits the final word of a sentence, we supply it ______ her or him. There is something about the human _______ that can’t _______ incompleteness. This tendency to fill in what’s _______ is the basis of cloze, a technique by which readers achieve closure by filling in the _______words in a selection. Based on the concept of Gestalt________, cloze was first proposed as a _________ for measuring the difficulty _________ of reading material. Today it is also used to build comprehension. – Gunning, 2010
What is the Cloze Procedure? Remember we used a modified Cloze procedure to practice contextual vocabulary strategies- FACADES
100
To promote students' understanding of the non-fiction text structure, compare and contrast, this is an effective graphic organizer to use.
What is a Venn Diagram?
200
After going on a field trip, students including ELL share ideas for a group story. Each student contributes a sentence. The teacher has students read back what was written chorally and the story is placed in the class library for practice.
What is A Language Experience Approach?
200
During this phase/stage of spelling development vowel diphthongs are typically taught ( two vowel talkers, whiners).
What is the transitional stage of spelling?
200
During structured read aloud the teacher models metacognitive strategies. Today she pauses at unknown words and asks herself if she knows the meaning of that word or why the author chose that word in relation to the message. This teacher is most likely modeling what reading comprehension strategy: monitor and clarify, visualize, summarize, predict
What is monitor and clarify or self-monitor?
200
This type of assessment measures how well a student has learned a specific topic or skill. The test performance is measured against an acceptable score or standard. It can identify individual students' strengths and weaknesses.
What is Criterion-referenced assessment?
200
This is one approach to fluency instruction that encourages students to read with expression and speaker like prosody. It provides an authentic reason to read and reread.
What is Reader's Theater?
300
1. Using reading as a preparation for writing. 2. Using writing as a preparation for reading. 3. Using webbing and mapping. 4. Using Summaries 5. Use authentic messages. 6. Use dialogue journals.
What are effective research-based reading and writing practices for enhancing comprehension of all students including ELLs. These are good for all students!
300
Two students spell the word . Student a writes: Student b writes: Describe the difference between the instructional needs of these two students?
What is the difference between a phonics issue and a phoneme awareness issue?
300
Think Aloud: When I check my own understanding as I read. When I don't understand and need to clarify I can see if the sentence makes sense. I can use my strategies to figure out how to pronounce a word. Or I can figure out what word means from context clues.
What is monitor and clarify? This is also called self-monitoring.
300
This type of assessment is an individually administered test that consists of graded word lists, graded reading passages, and comprehension questions. It can determine the reading level of a student (independent, instructional, frustration and listening capacity level).
What is and Informal Reading Inventory (IRI)
300
Mr. Caneday wants to help his students organize information they will be reading from their science text on rocks and minerals? He looks through all of his graphic organizers and chooses this one because he can use it to help classify different types of rocks.
What is a semantic or concept map? Or a Classification Chart
400
To support the independent learning of content (e.g,. science and social studies) by all students including ELLs and struggling readers classroom libraries should have these
What is content-area leveled texts that represent a range of reading levels aligned with the students reading levels.
400
In kindergarten teachers promote this type of spelling to encourage students to use the sound- symbol relationships they already have to spell words in their writing.
What is 'invented spelling.'
400
Schema theory is behind the importance of activating background knowledge prior to reading and understanding that new information can be added to existing schemas. There are several graphic organizers that facilitate building schemas.
What are concept/semantic mapping and KWL charts?
400
Typically considered high-stakes assessments these assessments that are machine-scored sample reading performance in a single testing. Test scores from this assessment are used to compare groups of students at the school, district, state or national level.
What is a standardized assessment?
400
Ms. Sutera wants to help her students understand the events from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement. She chooses this type of graphic organizer to help?
What is a time line?
500
The classroom teacher wants to support ELLs students understanding and use of questions to understand key details in text. So the teacher uses the ideas of visual supports.
What is the use of icons or illustrations to capture the question types. Remember I e-mailed you a set of Wh-questions types with icons/picture supports.
500
"During this stage of spelling, children begin to realize that letters represent speech sounds. A child might use a few letters, usually consonants, to represent words, syllables , initial letters or pieces of words." (Moats)
What is the Semiphonetic Stage of spelling.
500
Think Aloud: As I read I think about what is the most important part of the text. I practice paraphrasing. If I can not tell myself about what I just read I go back and think about 'shining my flashlight' on the most important ideas.
What is RC Strategy: Summarizing
500
A teacher uses students' written responses to their independent reading for a variety of assessment purposes. The teacher analyzes spelling errors to inform instruction, confers with students to look at their use of reading strategies and responds to their response journal entries to push them toward a deeper understanding of text.
What is authentic assessment?
500
In reading about the topic of ants, Ms. Shule wants a graphic organizer that she will be able to use before, during and after reading. She wants students to activate background knowledge and have students generate questions about what they hope to learn. She chooses this type of graphic organizer.
What is a KWL chart?
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