For Middle and Secondary School Readers/Writers
Beginning preview activity or Strategy designed to activate prior knowledge and interest
Anticipation Guides
Greater progress in spelling improvement may be made by explicit teaching.
Spelling Instructional Level
Recognition that children from all diverse cultures and background bring a wealth of information to the classroom.
Funds of Knowledge
Reliability
These factors, such as visual and auditory problems which hinder students from reading and writing.
Physical Factors
Engaging strategy to be used at any point of the lesson that allows for students' critical thinking and discussion
Think Pair Share
Explicit teaching of these smallest units of meaning to help improve spelling.
Morpheme instruction
Greatest need of time for development in order to fully participate in the learning process.
English Language development alongside their own language development
The quality of measuring what is supposed to be measured by a given assessment.
Validity
Term for profound inability to learn to read and write.
Dyslexia
Period of time provided to students to write thoughts everything that comes to mind about a topic which they are about to study.
Free Writes or Quick Writes
Monitoring Writing Progress/Portfolio Assessment
Making the home language of students welcomed and accessible to all students in the classroom.
Creating a Multilingual Classroom Environment
The point on a distribution of test scores with equal number of scores above and below it.
Median
Integration of multisensory experience with direct, systematic and sequential instruction
Multisensory Language Experience
Whole group activity of stage learning in which students discuss prior knowledge, information they learn and what they might want to discover next.
Detailed presentations of quality criteria addressing several aspects of writing.
Writing Rubrics
Making bilingual and multi-cultural books available to students.
Creation of bilingual and multi-cultural classroom libraries.
Average test performances of students from various geographic, urban and rural communities, and of varied age, grade, race, and socio-economic groups.
Norm-referenced tests
Teaching of sight words which are not easily decoded using phonics in a quick series of show and cover
Whole Word Recognition or Rapid Naming Strategy
Cooperative Learning Activity in which students are responsible for finding reasons to support one side of an argument and then advocate for this side.
Academic Controversy or Persuasive Debate
Writing skills can be listed and kept for review of self and peer writing.
Writing Checklists
Research supports that this one accommodation narrows the gap between ELL's test performance and other students.
Linguistic Modification of Test Questions
Tests which are norm referenced and standardized to determine the areas and levels of challenges/difficulties.
Diagnostic Tests
Word Sounds and Word Categorization Strategy