Assessing Language Arts
A teacher asks students about the story while reading.
What is formative assessment?
Description, Sequence, Cause/Effect, Compare/Contrast, and Problem/Solution
What are text structures?
Content specific vocabulary words.
What are Tier 3 vocabulary words?
The ability to express one's wants, needs, and feelings.
What is Oral Language?
Teachers selects number of spelling words, students work on learning the words in class and at home, followed by a spelling test at the end of the week/unit.
What is a traditional spelling instruction approach?
Florida Standards Assessment
While reading the Science Weekly about types of rocks, Mrs. Franklin has the students draw and label the types of rocks in their science notebook. Students are required to describe the rock types using adjectives. The students discuss important information from the article and add it to their graphic organizer.
What is an integrated unit of study?
Student that can communicate easily with other children and adults, articulate most English sounds correctly, know 1,500 to 2,500 words, use detailed six to eight-word sentences, and can repeat four-syllable words.
What are vocabulary characteristics of a kindergarten student?
The ability to narrate events in a sequential or logical order to convey a message to an audience.
What is oral storytelling?
Prephonetic, Early Phonetic, Phonetic, Structural, and Meaning/Derivational
What are the stages of spelling development?
Used at the end of a unit or to assess overall grade-level performance.
What is summative assessments?
Reading strategy used to help children hear what fluent reading sounds like.
What is echo reading?
The word sad.
What is a Tier 1 word?
Critical Thinking, Vocabulary Acquisition, Problem Solving Strategies, and Social Pragmatics
What are the benefits of explicit oral language instruction?
Two vowel letters that represent one vowel sound (oe, ea, ie)
What are vowel digraphs?
Identify the language arts standard. Develop and implement instruction. Assess student learning. Evaluate student performance. Identify new learning objectives.
What is the Language Arts Assessment Cycle?
Beginning consonants, onsets and rimes, ending consonants, consonant blends and digraphs short vowels, long vowels
What is the phonics instruction sequence?
Selecting vocabulary to express variance in meaning.
What are shades of meaning?
Prelinguistic Stage, Holophrasic Stage, Two-word Sentences, Multiple-word Sentences, Complex Grammatical Sentences, Developed Language Structures
What are the stages of first language acquisition?
Paper Positioning, Seat Preference, Provide Softer Lead Pencil, Right-Side Spiral Notebooks.
What are ways to support left-handed writers?
A collection of student's work (e.g. classwork, assessments, projects, photos, writings, etc.)
What is a portfolio?
Reading selections that students choose on their own. They are provided time to read their selections.
What is free voluntary reading?
An informal diagnostic reading test, that consists of word lists, reading selections, practice, and assessments.
What is an IRI?
Language functions used to interact with others.
What is Tough's Model for Language Use?
French, German, Greek, Latin, Japanese, Arabic, and Spanish.
What are languages that influenced the development of the English language?