English Language Learners
Differentiation for all Levels
Gifted and Talented Learners
Literacy Assessments
Literature Circles
100
The recommended way to assist ELLs; it is another way to provide instruction rather than through whole group instruction.
What is small group instruction?
100
content, process, and product
What are the three ways a teacher should differentiate instruction?
100
Has a very large vocabulary at a young age
What is a characteristic of a gifted/talented student?
100
An informal way of determining a child's academic level that only requires looking.
What is observation?
100
The role that shares a picture of a meaningful part of a text.
Who is the illustrator?
200
ELL students must be encouraged to engage in this on a daily basis in the classroom.
What is oral language?
200
Striving, On Level, Advanced
What are the three general levels of differentiation?
200
Teachers often ask gifted students to do this in the classroom; it is sometimes met with resistance.
What is assist other students?
200
observation notes, anecdotal notes, audio tapes, videos
What are informal assessments tools?
200
The role that encourages students to think about how a book relates to other books read in the past.
Who is the connector?
300
Teacher talk, texts on tests and evaluations, used throughout lessons
What is academic language?
300
rigor, relevant, flexible, complex
What is important to maintain through differentiation?
300
Teachers who use this interactive tool with their gifted students can challenge them in many ways.
What is technology?
300
Marie Clay created this tool over 20 years ago.
What is the running record?
300
Other than role sheets, teachers recommend students do this in preparation for their literature circles.
What is take notes in books or write on sticky notes (Post-It Notes)?
400
Effective teachers plan for times that ELLs work with other students to complete assignments.
What are peer-assisted learning opportunities?
400
When a teacher allows a student to draw a picture instead of provide a written statement, she is allowing this type of differentiation.
What is differentiation of the product?
400
linguistic, logical-mathematical, visual-spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalist
What are Gardner's multiple intelligences?
400
The running record gives teachers information about the reader, and the errors that are made. These are the types of errors that are made.
What are meaning (m), syntactic (S), visual(V)?
400
students have choice of these things in a literature circle
What is the literature and response (including role sheet)?
500
This model is an effective way to includes the following eight components: Lesson Preparation, Interaction, Building Background, Practice and Application, Comprehensible Input, Lesson Delivery, Strategies, Review and Assessment
What is the SIOP model?
500
Teachers need to make sure they consider this theory, based on a biblical story, before organizing students in homogenous academic groups every day.
What is the Matthew Effect?
500
Creating, Evaluating, Analyzing
What are the levels of Bloom's Taxonomy that work best with gifted students?
500
Examples of these include STAAR, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), and SAT.
What are formal assessments?
500
taking turns, polite conversation, and acceptance of differing views and perspectives
What are social skills used in a literature circle?