All children are participating and singing a song, doing the hand movements as they sing and the teacher is watching to see who is doing them correctly.
What is an informal assessment
100
This is a student that comes to school and English isn't their first language.
What is an English Language Learner?
100
The teacher turns housekeeping into a restaurant, puts menus and aprons there and walks around asking questions and observing the children playing.
What is guided play?
100
These are known as the 3 p's.
What is purposeful, planful and playful?
100
The children are using songs to learn rhymes.
What is phonemic awareness?
200
Each child has a notebook that is divided into sections to store the children's papers and anecdotal notes.
What is a portfolio?
200
ELL's do best when you have one of these in place for them to follow.
What is a routine?
200
The children take turns coming up and filling in words on the chart paper.
What is shared writing?
200
These are stipulations and provisions you put into place to ensure a child's progress; such as settings, materials, experiences and social support that create a positive climate and strong community for learning.
What are learning conditions?
200
The children needs lots of this every day to feel comfortable using language?
What is practice?
300
One type of assessment you observe students without a specific goal or objective. The other type of assessment you do an activity or observe to gather information for a specific goal or objective.
What are informal and formal assessments?
300
All children respond together so everyone feels safe to respond.
What is a choral or group response?
300
The children pretend to run in place every time they hear the chorus "Run, run, run, as fast as you can. You can't catch me, I'm the Gingerbread Man!"
What is shared reading?
300
The teacher introduces a new rhyming word each week during circle time using a silly song? Which P is this?
What is playful, purposeful and planful?
300
The teacher points out the parts of a book like the cover, author, title, illustrator, spine, etc.
What are the concepts about print?
400
In this approach you tell parents 3 facts about their child. The first is a positive fact, the second is something that they can work on and the third is something positive again to leave the parents with nice thoughts about their child.
What is the hamburger approach?
400
The teacher takes a group of students and introduces them to an idea or vocabulary words before she introduces it to the rest of the children in the classroom.
What is pre teaching?
400
The children have opportunities to speak in front of the class talking about something that is important to them and learn to answer and ask questions.
What is show and tell?
400
The teacher introduces letters using the children's names because she knows they are interested in them. What P is this?
What is playful, planful and purposeful?
400
The children give their guesses about what will come next in the story.
What is a prediction?
500
Writing observations of the children on sticky notes for supporting documentation.
What are anecdotal notes?
500
When ELL's first come to school they may have a period where they don't speak yet. What is this called?
What is their non-verbal period?
500
The children learn how to tell a story by listening to them and retelling them in school. They then can write their own stories and share them as authors.
What is storytelling?
500
The teachers uses the state standards to check to make sure her objectives match what she is supposed to be teaching.
What is planful and purposeful?
500
These four things need to be joined together in order for children to join oral language and early literacy.