These are quick inquiries that provide teachers with constantly changing information about a students response to instruction.
What is a Progress Monitoring Assessment?
100
A teacher who's goal is having every child achieve California Content Standards is:
What is Standards Driven?
100
The following tests would assess a student's understanding of the which content area:
Marie Clay's "Concepts about Print"
Informal test with picture book
Simple Observation
What is Concepts About Print
100
Teaching students to recognize words using sound/symbol relationships.
What is phonics?
200
These are two letters that make one sound. For example, the "ee" sound in the word speech.
What is a Digraph
200
Dividing the assessment into smaller units over several days, asking for answers in different ways (verbal, written, etc), and providing a simpler version of the assessment are all called...
What is an Alternative Assessment?
200
A teacher who bases all of their instructional decisions (grouping, individual attention) on collected data:
What is assessment based teaching?
200
A student who understands that a book is read top to bottom and left to right is said to have mastered this concept
What is Directionality?
200
Identify 3 ways to assess students' phonics mastery.
What is Decoding in Isolation
Decoding in Context
Writing Tasks (encoding in isolation and context)
Reading Nonsense Words
Matching Tests
300
This is what we call a meaningful morphological unit of a language that cannot be further divided.
What is a Morpheme?
300
These are are used to evaluate student learning, skill, and academic achievement at the end of a defined instructional period—typically at the end of a project, unit, course, semester, program, or school year.
What is a Summative Assessment?
300
A teacher who uses both direct explicit instruction and gives students opportunities to put concepts into practice:
What is Balanced Instruction?
300
A student that can identify the title, cover page, author and top to bottom orientation of a book has mastered this concept.
What is Book Orientation?
300
Identify 2 direct, explicit instructional activities to teach sound/symbol relationships in a small group that assessments indicate students have not mastered.
What is Analytic Phonics (Whole to Part) and Synthetic Phonics (Part to Whole)?
400
In phonetics, this is a vowel in which there is a noticeable sound change within the same syllable. Two sounds, one word, like the "ou" in the word OUT.
What is a Diphthong?
400
This is an assessment that is implemented prior to instruction to help teachers decide which students have already mastered the skills that are going to be taught and which students have the prerequisite skills and knowledge.
What is a Pre-Assessment or an Entry Level Assessment?
400
A teacher who is seeking to develop all 4 language arts: reading, writing, speaking and listening:
What is Comprehensive teaching?
400
Reading aloud to students during circle time enhances this concept about print.
What is Print Carries Meaning?
400
List 3 indirect activities which could be blended with the direct explicit instruction on phonics.
What is reading Children's Literature
Tongue Twisters
Word Lists
500
This is the smallest unit in the written language.
What is Grapheme?
500
San Diego Quick, Structural Analysis, Phonemic Awareness, and Reading Fluency are all examples of what?
What is the Informal Reading Inventory?
500
A teacher who uses different strategies for different children. For example: Variation in how students are grouped
Individual attention for struggling students
Small group work
Whole group work
Short term groups for specific concepts
What is Differentiated Teaching?
500
Name one whole class activity that reinforces all concepts about print.
What is a shared book experience? (Big Book)
500
Define 3 types of sight words and 1 instructional strategy to teach them.
What is High Frequency Words
Words that defy sound/symbol language rules
Content Area Words
Instructional Strategy: Word Bank or Linear Word Walls