All types of assessment other than standardized tests.
What is alternative assessment?
100
Providing support through modeling or feedback and then withdrawing support?gradually as the learner gains competence.
What is scaffolding?
100
The association of speech sounds with printed symbols.
What is phonics?
100
Two or more adjacent consonant letters whose sounds are blended together, with?each individual sound retaining its identity.
What is consonant blend?
100
Comparisons of two similar relationships, stated in the form of the following example:?Author is to book as artist is to painting.
What are analogies?
200
A measurement of a student’s performance on activities that reflect real world learning experiences.
What is authentic assessment?
200
The development of the ability to think and reason.
What is cognitive development?
200
Clues to the meaning of words or phrases.
What is semantic clues?
200
Two adjacent consonant letters that represent a single speech sound.
What is a consonant digraph?
200
Pairs of words that have opposite meanings.
What are antonyms?
300
Ongoing assessment designed to offer feedback on progress for both the teacher and the learner.
What is formative assessment?
300
A framework or an approach for working with young children in which the teacher considers each child’s competencies and adjusts instruction?accordingly.
What is developmentally appropriate practice?
300
Clues to pronunciation or word meaning found in the surrounding words and sentences.
What are context clues?
300
Vowel sounds that are so closely blended that they can be treated as single vowel units?for the purposes of word identification.
What is a diphthong?
300
A word or a phrase placed beside another word or phrase as a restatement.
What is an appositive?
400
The use of a testing instrument based on extensive normative data and for?which reliability and validity can be verified.
What is formal assessment?
400
Teacher control of the learning environment through structured lessons, goal setting, choice of activities, and feedback.
What is direct instruction?
400
Words that have identical spellings but sound different and have different meanings.
What are homographs?
400
The smallest unit of sound in a language.
What is a phoneme?
400
The origin and history of words.
What is etymology?
500
An informal instrument designed to help the teacher determine?a child’s independent, instructional, frustration, and capacity levels.
What is an informal reading inventory (IRI)?
500
A developing awareness of the interrelatedness of oral and written language.
What is emergent literacy?
500
The analysis of words by identifying prefixes, suffixes, root words, inflectional?endings, contractions, word combinations forming compound words, and syllabication.