Competency 9 Vocabulary

What is an independent reading level?

• The level at which a student can read a text on his/her own as indicated by a 95% accuracy rate.

• The level at which a student can read a text on his/her own as indicated by a 85% accuracy rate.

• The level at which a student can read a text on his/her own as indicated by a 75% accuracy rate.

• The level at which a student can read a text on his/her own as indicated by a 65% accuracy rate.

What is an authentic assessment?

• Assessment activities that reflect the actual independent reading level of individual students.

• Assessment activities that reflect the average reading levels of students in a classroom compared to a larger test group.

• Assessment activities that reflect the district's reading plan.

• Assessment activities that reflect the actual workplace, family, community, and school curriculum.

What is ability grouping?

• A group discussion involving four to six children who have read the same piece of literature

• Collections of a child’s work over time including a cover letter, work samples, standards, and performance-task examples.

• Grouping children with similar needs or for instructional purposes. The groups change as the needs of the children in them change

• grouping children by grade and independent reading level

What is a balanced literacy format?

• refers ro the learning of second-language skills through face-to-face interaction and translation through speaking, listening, and viewing

• The teacher develops conceptual knowledge by managing the learning activities for the learner.

• Metacognitive strategy including predicting, clarifying, questioning, and summarizing

• Often referred to as a whole-small-whole group approach.

What are Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills (BICS)?

• An ELL term for the the language any child acquires in the first few years of life. This acquired language is where that child develops phonological and phonemic awareness.

• An ELL/Bilingual education term that refers ro the learning of second-language skills through face-to-face interaction and translation through speaking, listening, and viewing.

What is cognitivism?

• A balanced-literacy strategy that encourages the students to stop and think during reading and check for himself/herself to ensure understanding.

• Books designed to entertain and inform outside of the classroom. Can be used as a student motivation tool.

• humans generate knowledge through sequential development of an individual’s cognitive abilities.

• strategy including predicting, clarifying, questioning, and summarizing.

What is an instructional level?

• The level at which students can read with the assistance of a teacher as indicated by an 90-100% accuracy rate.

• The level at which students can read with the assistance of a teacher as indicated by an 85-95% accuracy rate.

• The level at which students can read with the assistance of a teacher as indicated by an 75-85% accuracy rate.

• The level at which students can read with the assistance of a teacher as indicated by an 65-75% accuracy rate.

What is an informal reading inventory (IRI)?

• Books designed to entertain and inform outside of the classroom. Can be used as a student motivation tool.

• A series of reading excerpts that can be used to determine a child’s reading strengths and needs in comprehension and decoding.

• Collections of a child’s work over time including a cover letter, work samples, standards, and performance-task examples.

What is a core curriculum program?

• Commercially developed products meant to reach the majority of students and provide them with the necessary skills to be successful readers.

• A series of reading excerpts that can be used to determine a child’s reading strengths and needs in comprehension and decoding. Many published reading series have one to go with their series.

• Books designed to entertain and inform outside of the classroom. Can be used as a student motivation tool.

• A balanced-literacy strategy that encourages the students to stop and think during reading and check for himself/herself to ensure understanding.

What is first language?

• An ELL term for the the language any child acquires in the first few years of life. THis acquired language is where that child develops phonological and phonemic awareness.

• An ELL/Bilingual education term that refers ro the learning of second-language skills through face-to-face interaction and translation through speaking, listening, and viewing.