Standards Based Vocabulary

Standards Based Vocabulary

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Achievement Test	An objective examination that measure educationally relevant skills or knowledge about such subjects as reading, spelling, or mathematics.
Annotated Book List	A list of all the books that the students have read. It is how we keep track of 25 books and should be collected/checked
Anticipation Guides
Artifacts	A classroom should be functional and reflect a standards-based implementation. Artifacts are elements that are present in the classroom. Examples include a classroom library, rituals and routines, word wall, portfolios, etc. There are also specific artifacts that should be present on bulletin boards such as rubric, commentary, standards, student work example, etc.
Assessment	The ways students can demonstrate the knowledge and skills they possess.
At-risk Student	A student who is academically unsuccessful as evidenced by low test scores, retention, failing grades, low grade point average, falling behind in earned credits, or not meeting the state or district proficiency levels in reading, mathematics, or writing.
Author Study	This is a major reading project where students complete a detailed study of one particular author. They will read several different types of writing by the author and complete a major writing assignment based on the information that was found
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Background Knowledge	The knowledge and understandings of the world that students have acquired through their everyday experiences -- riding in cars or buses, playing and talking with other children and adults, that help them to make sense of the texts they read.
Benchmark	A benchmark translates the standard into what the student should know and be able to do at developmentally appropriate levels. Benchmarks are models that teachers, parents, and students can refer to when designing, implementing, and assessing student outcomes.
Blooms Taxonomy	Benjamin Bloom identified six levels of learning domains. The levels begin at the lowest point and moves to more complex levels. The levels (in order from lowest to highest) are: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.
Brain Storming	A technique used to generate several ideas around a topic. Some brainstorming techniques include webs, lists, charts, etc.
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Center-based Classroom	Classrooms that use activity focal points, centers, as their primary means of instruction
Choral Reading/Chanting:	Two or more individuals reading aloud from the same text -- this can help students to develop oral reading fluency.
Classroom Environment	A safe and productive learning environment for students.
Classroom Library	A set of books for students in the classroom which are classified according to genre and reading level.
Closing	The Closing is the final part of the day where the teacher and students refocus learning, share student work, and decide on next steps.
Commentary	Commentary: written teacher analysis of student work compared to the standard.
Concept Map	Concept mapping is a technique for representing knowledge in graphs and organize ideas.
Constructing Meaning	A process of making sense of text; by connecting one's own knowledge with the print readers "build" an understanding of what the text is about.
Content Standard	Specifications of what students know and should be able to demonstrate
Context/Context Clues	Information from the surrounding text that helps identify or gives meaning to a specific word or phrase, i.e.: "yesterday I read the book". The words surrounding "read" help us know how to pronounce it.
Cooperative Learning	An educational approach based on individuals who work in groups harmoniously.
Cooperative Group Activities	Activities that requires students to work with other students around a common, purpose, goal, or benefit.
Core Subject	Primary academic areas (science, math, reading, social studies, etc.)
Criterion Referenced Testing	Mainly address content. Used 90% of the time
Cumulative Folder	An individual student record file, which includes academic achievement, social health, and general student information.
Curriculum	The curricular or instructional activities that might be used to help students develop skill and ability within a given content area.
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DAR	Diagnostic Assessment of Reading. Will provide specific data regarding the specific reading needs of the student. Addressed in Intensive Reading training (should be available at all schools)
Decoding	Analyzing text in order to identify and understand individual words. Figuring out the written code.
Diagnostic Test	An intensive, in-depth evaluation process with a relatively detailed and narrow coverage of a specific area. The purpose of this test is to determine the specific learning needs of individual students in order to meet those needs through regular or remedial classroom instruction.
Dialogue Journal	A dialogue journal is a notebook kept jointly by two people, usually a student and a teacher, or a student and peer. Each person writes entries as messages to the other. The journal is exchanged after each entry.
Differentiated Instruction	Instruction that is individualized for a student based on data.
Direct Instruction	An instructional approach to academic subjects that emphasizes the use of carefully sequenced steps that may include demonstration, modeling, guided practice, and independent application.
Double I (ii)	Initial instruction. Whole class instruction on based mini lesson
DRA	Diagnostic Reading Assessment. Will provide specific data regarding the specific reading needs of the student. Included in Literacy training. Utilized by both Elementary and Secondary teachers.
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Echo Reading	Reading of a text where an adult or experienced reader reads a line of text, and the student repeats the line. A good technique for Emergent and Early Readers to build fluency and expression.
Emergent Reader	A reader who is developing an association of print with meaning -- the early stages of learning to read.
Explore	This is portion of the workshop model that it used in Math. The explore phase is the same as the work period in the traditional workshop model.
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Feedback	Returning information around a specific task, assignment, or product. Feedback may be evaluative and should provide information for next steps.
Fluency	The ability to easily speak, read, or write a language; automatic word recognition, rapid decoding, and checking for meaning
Formative Assessment	Assessments become formative when the results are used to adapt learning and teaching.
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Genre Study	This is a major project where students will produce a specific writing genre sample. Several lessons to accompany this assignment. See the America’s Choice Manual for specifics
Grade Equivalent	The estimated grade level that corresponds to a given score.
Grade Level Expectation	Also known as GLE. A GLE is a statement that defines what all students should know and be able to do at the end of a given grade level.
Graphic Organizers	A tool that can be used to organize ideas graphically.
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Individualized Behavior Contract	A student/teacher contract that identifies specific behaviors to be improved.
Inference	Drawing meaning from a combination of clues in the text without explicit reference to the text. "The sky was dark and cloudy so I took my umbrella." We can infer that it might rain even thought the text does not say that.
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KWL	A graphic organizer that is traditionally used before and after reading. Students identify what the know (K) and what they want to know (W) about a particular topic prior to reading. After reading, the student can identify what they have learned (L). Can be used whole-class, small-group, or independently.
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Launch	Launch is the opening of the Math Workshop. During this time, students will receive instruction on new skills or strategies to be emplyed during the work session (or Explore).
Learning Logs	A Learning Log is a collection of strategies and skills that the student has been taught during the school year. The Learning Log serves as a reference for students.
Learning Modalities	Approaches to assessment or instruction stressing the auditory, visual, or kinesthetic –tactile avenues for learning that are dependent upon the individual.
Learning Styles	Approaches to assessment or instruction emphasizing the variations in temperament, attitude, and preferred manner of tackling a task. Typically considered are styles along the active/passive, reflective/impulsive, or verbal/spatial dimensions.
Lexile Reading Inventory	A tool designed to bridge two aspects of student reading achievement: leveling text difficulty and assessing the reading skills of each student.
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Math Workshop	Math Workshop has a structured routine that includes Launch (opening/instruction), Explore (student work time), Summarize (reflect, refocus, reiterate).
Metacognition	Awareness and understanding of one's thinking. Metacognition is a critical process for learning.
Mini-Lesson	This is your instructional piece. This is where you teach material to the students. Mini-lessons should be 10-15 minutes in length. Mini-lessons should fit in one of four categories: Procedural Lesson, Skills Lesson, Craft Lesson, Strategy Lesson
Miscue	Any substitution of a word in a text that a reader makes.
Miscue Analysis	An examination of reading errors or substitutions (miscues) as the basis for determining the strengths and weaknesses of students' reading skills.
Modeling	Classroom Modeling involves demonstrating the specific behaviors and language patterns of an expectation.
Multi-disciplinary	The curriculum integration of one idea across more than one subject area.
Multi-sensory Learning	An instructional approach that combines auditory, visual, and tactile elements into a learning task.
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Narrative Writing	Narrative writing tells a story. The author may write about an experience or event or something that happened to somebody else, or generate original ideas for the focus of the story.
NCEE	NCEE: National Center of Education and the Economy.
New Performance Standards	Nationally benchmarked performance standards for English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science and Applied Learning.
Norm-Referenced Test	An objective test that is standardized on a group of individuals whose performance is evaluated in relation to the performance of others.
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Objectives	To understand how effective leaning activities can be accomplished through thoughtful & planned systems
Opening Activities	Opening Activities are tasks that the student must engage in upon the start of class. Examples of Opening Activities in many classrooms include: journaling, written response to task or question, independent reading, mini-lesson, problem-solving activity.
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Peer-Tutoring	Students academically assisting other same age students.
Performance Standards	Precise statements defining the knowledge and skills students should acquire through content instruction. Performance standards= performance description + work samples + commentaries on the work samples.
Persuasive Writing	In persuasive writing, a writer takes a position for or against an issue. The writer must convince the reader to believe or do something.
Phonemic Awareness	Awareness of the sound system of spoken language including individual sounds, rhyming, components of words, etc.
Phonemic Awareness	Awareness of the sound system of spoken language including individual sounds, rhyming, components of words, etc.
Planner	The calendar that students use to write down class work and homework. Encourage parents to check the planners weekly, or daily to keep up with classroom activities
Portfolio	Collection of student work and other pertinent school information.
Print Rich Environment	An environment in which the learner is surrounded by items and opportunities to read and write; for example, books, magazines, charts, posters, newspapers, manuals, etc.
Proficient Readers	Proficient readers are readers that are able to read and derive meaning from texts. Proficient readers can: draw conclusions, make predictions, confirm and adjust predictions, interpret, and make connections from a text.
Progress Monitoring	Ongoing assessment (various forms) that track the progress of students as they attain certain skills and work through different content
Progress Report	A detailed listing of assignments and scores that the child has received in class. They are sent home every three weeks, must be signed by parents and returned to you
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Q-A-R	Students learn to craft their own questions to do a better job of answering questions. Students form two types of questions: In the Text and In the Head.
QRI-(III or IV)	Qualitative Reading Inventory - Variety of Literature, Science, Social Studies passages, Replication of reading process with look-backs, Preparation for reading with concept discussion, Use of Retelling alternative, Analysis of reading process through think-aloud
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Readers Response Notebook RRNB	Readers Response Notebook is used by students to record written responses to their reading. Responses should be varied and can reflect on thoughts, ideas, strategies used while reading the text, lists, or writing topics.
Readers Workshop	Readers' Workshop is way of structuring instruction around literacy. The major goal for readers workshop is to help students develop an appreciation for reading, and to differentiate, or personalize, instruction in order to accommodate the learning needs of all students. Writers Workshop consists of an Opening, Work Period/Session, and Closing.
Reading Strategies	Reading strategies are cognitive processes students while reading to construct and maintain meaning.
Reteach	Reteaching should occur when a student's performance did not meet the standard. Teachers should modify instructional delivery and practice and reteach the skill, strategy, lesson to the student(s)).
Rituals and Routines	Routines are predictable structures that divide the class period into three blocks of time. Rituals are predictable procedures or ways of doing things in the class.
Rubric	Systematic grading assessment.
Running Record	A tool used to track the progress of an individual student’s text reading level. A running record is used to establish a reading accuracy level and self correction rate, analyze the students’ use of meaning, structure, and visual cues, notes student behavior observed, and plan for the next teaching points and learning steps for the student.
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Safety Net	Duval county Dropout Prevention Programs.
SDRT	Stanford Diagnostic Reading Test - The SDRT can be used as a Diagnostic Assessment: “essential components of reading in order to determine students' strengths and needs”. Administered to Intensive Reading students twice a year.
Semantics	The study of the meaning in language; the analysis of the meanings of words, phrases, sentences. The "meaning" of words, those connotations that you might look up in a dictionary (as opposed to syntax).
Shared Reading	When children are involved in reading a text with an adult in such a way that the adult models strategies and concepts such as predicting and noticing letter patterns. Helpful with very early readers in developing concepts about print such as "word" and directionality.
Sight Word	A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require word analysis for identification
Sourcebook	It is a resource for students to use or refer to for writing and reading ideas. They can record notes, strategies, techniques, and collect samples of writing
Standard	Definition of what we expect student to know and perform.
Standardized Test	A form of measurement that has been normed against a specific population. Standardization is obtained by administering the test to a given population and then calculating means, standard deviations, standardized scores, and percentiles. Equivalent scores are then produced for comparisons of an individual score to the norm group’s performance.
Strand	Individual indicators detailing standards.
Student Work	Any performance produced by the student that can be used to assess learning.
Styles of Learning	Learning Styles are how a brain learns and stores information. Some examples of learning styles are: visual, auditory, kinesthetic and tactile.
Summative Assessment	Measurement or tools used to determine the outcome of a student’s academic progress.
Syntax	The pattern or structure of word order in sentences, clauses and phrases; the grammatical rules that govern language. syntax The set of rules and principles that determine how sentences are formed, and the structures resulting from sentence formation.
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Triple I (iii)	Immediate Intensive Intervention – focused small group instruction on the specific reading weaknesses for a group of students. Integral part of Intensive Reading classroom.
UbD	The acronym UBD is short for Understanding by Design. The curriculum framework for the four academic subject areas follows the structure of Understanding by Design, developed by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe. It includes three stages for teaching and learning.
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Venn Diagram	A graphic organizer that typically consists of two overlapping circles. It is used to show similarities and differences of two things.
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Weekly Overview	The weekly schedule of assignments that is on the board that your class will follow
Word Families	A group of words that share a common feature or pattern, for example: stay, play, day, hay are all part of the ay family, and stick, stop or stuff are part of the st family
Word Study	5-10 minutes of focused instruction on syllabication, roots, prefixes, suffixes, affixes. Key component of Intensive Reading classroom
Word Wall	Word Walls are areas in the classroom where teachers and students post words to reinforce what has been learned or introduced.
Work Session	Work Session is a part of the class routine where students are engaged learning and applying the standards. Activities can include independent work, group work, teacher-student conferencing.
Writers Workshop	Writers Workshop is way of structuring instruction around writing. The major goal for writers workshop is to help students develop an appreciation for writing, and to differentiate, or personalize, instruction in order to accommodate the learning needs of all students. Writers Workshop consists of an Opening, Work Period/Session, and Closing.
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