Chapter 1
What students should learn at designated grade levels and content areas
Standards
A class that has both online and face-to-face learning opportunities
Blended learning
Programs for learners in which all the subject areas are taught in English and English instruction is separate from content area instruction
EL Program (English Learners)
Number of items a student answers correctly on a test is the
Raw Score
One of the most useful assessment tools for authentic assessment
Observation
What knowledge is strongly related to comprehension.
Hint: It is a strand of the reading rope
Vocabulary
Another name for new literacies
Media literacies
Programs designed to teach English and to provide instruction in the core curriculum using the home language of the learner.
Bilingual Programs
Relative standing of a student at a particular grade level is the
Percentile score
When students use reading, writing, talking, listening and viewing to learn subject matter in a given discipline, you are doing what?
Reading to learn
Every teacher must teach _________________
Reading
Every teacher is a reading teacher
Teacher-created web pages combining learning tasks and activities that require students to use Internet resources to complete them
Webquests
Contemporary classrooms in which many cultures, beliefs, and values are represented
Multicultural classrooms
The consistency of a student's test scores.
Reliability
An interesting teaching/learning strategy that involves students taking a break from reading by stretching and then sketching what is being visualized while reading
Sketch-to-stretch
Preparing instruction for a variety of students' needs to maximize learning is called ________________
Differentiated instruction
Online journals or diaries
Blogs or Vlogs
An expression whose meaning cannot be inferred literally is called
Raining cats and dogs Frog in my throat
In hot water on thin ice
I could eat a horse cool your jets
Idiomatic expression
Does the test measure what it purports to test
Inalidity
Words that are culturally and linguistically related with the non-native speaker's language and in English.
Professor Profesor
number numero
no no
Cognates
Forms of communication that can be print, digital, or visual in nature
New Literacies
Social rules of network communication
Netiquette
A simple, common strategy to help build reading fluency
Repeated reading
Assessments such as observations, interviews and student-selected work products which show a student's progress through meaningful activities are called
Authentic assessments
Using themes to integrate multicultural concepts is known as ______________________ to cultural understanding
Additive approach