Brandman University

Teresa McFarland-Instructor

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Language Acquisition and Learning Theory

s part of the instructional process.

When incorporated into classroom practice, it provides the information needed to adjust teaching and learning while they are happening.

In this sense, formative assessment informs both teachers and students about student understanding at a point when timely adjustments can be made.

These adjustments help to ensure students achieve, targeted standards-based learning goals within a set time frame.

Examples

Progress monitoring assessments are quick probes that provide teachers with on-going information about students' response to intervention.

The goal of these assessments is to provide teachers with data to answer two questions:

Is the student making progress towards a grade-level expectation or long-term goal?

Is the students making progress towards mastery of a targeted skill?

are given periodically to determine at a particular point in time what students know and do not know.

Are given periodically to determine at a particular point in time what students know and do not know.

Many associate summative assessments only with standardized tests such as state assessments, but they are also used at and are an important part of district and classroom programs.

Summative assessment at the district/classroom level is an accountability measure that is generally used as part of the grading process.

Examples:

State assessmentsDistrict benchmark or interim assessmentsEnd-of-unit or chapter testsEnd-of-term or semester examsScores that are used for accountability for schools (AYP) and students (report card grades).

Orthographic KnowledgeExamine State Approved Reading Texts

Open Court & Houghton Mifflin

Orthographic KnowledgeThe understanding that the sounds in a language are represented by written or printed symbols

Read and create word cards for ten words your tutee needs to learn. Create an instructional activity

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Automaticity is the ability to do things without occupying the mind with the low-level details required, allowing it to become an automatic response pattern or habit.

 For our students, achieving automaticity  in reading is essential not only to their becoming effective readers, but becoming effective all-around learners.

 At this stage, their reading skills have developed to a point of automaticity where they no longer need to use their working memory to facilitate the task of reading, and they can use that memory for things like interpretation, comprehension and creative thinking.

The majority of students make the shift from “learning to read” to “reading to learn” around second or third grade.

Developmental Process

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Expository 

Narrative

 At this stage, their reading skills have developed to a point of automaticity where they no longer need to use their working memory to facilitate the task of reading, and they can use that memory for things like interpretation, comprehension and creative thinking.

Literary-Literary writing refers to creating new creative work, such as poems or novels, and compilations or volumes of creative work. (verb)Composing a novel is an example of literary writing.

DefinitionAuthor’s Purpose is the reason why the text was written.There are three main purposes to an author’s passage.

TO:1. Persuade 2. Inform 3.Entertain

 Author’s Purpose: To Persuade •It’s the author’s goal to persuade the reader to agree with the author’s opinion. •Even though the author shares his opinion, he may provide facts or examples to support the opinion. •Examples: advertisements, commercials, newspaper editorials, etcAuthor's Purpose: To Inform •It’s the author’s goal to enlighten the reader with topics that are usually real or contain facts. •Facts are used to teach, not to persuade. •Examples: textbooks, cookbooks, newspapers, encyclopedias, etc. Author’s Purpose: To Entertain •It is the author’s goal to tell a story or describe real or imaginary characters, places, and events•Examples: poems, stories, plays, comic strips, etc.Essential Question(s): How can the reader use the text features to determine why the test was written? How can we use inductive reasoning to determine the author’s purpose? How do readers identify the author’s purpose in a text.