Content Instruction

Question 1

No Child Left Behind (NCLB)

Answer 1

a 2002 federal law that focused on holding schools accountable for student learning and achievement and was initially developed to assist disadvantaged students

Question 2

Scaffolded Accommodations

Answer 2

linguistic accommodations that structure support

Oral: Wait time Procedural: Tiers Instructional: Sentence frames

Question 3

Sequenced Accommodations

Answer 3

linguistic accommodations that provide differentiated Instruction

Sequenced accommodations include using supplementary materials and pre-teaching social and academic vocabulary.

Question 4

Communicated Accommodations

Answer 4

linguistic accommodations that ensure comprehensible input

Visuals, TPR, expectations, L1 support are examples of communicated accommodation.

Question 5

Reciprocal Teaching

Answer 5

a dialog between teachers and students regarding segments of text; there are four parts: summarizing, question generating, clarifying, and predicting

The teacher used reciprocal teaching to make the text more meaningful to her students.

Question 6

Linguistic Accommodated Testing (LAT)

Answer 6

testing accommodations used for the various content area tests

ELL students may take tests with simplified language or be allowed to use tools like glossaries.