These days, there are many ways student progress is assessed--gone are the days when quizzes and tests are the only ways by which teachers determine how well their students are learning. Just as employees must use all of their skills to solve problems within the workplace, teachers are now presenting students with real-life scenarios and methods to make sure they are successful. Examples--or portfolios--of each student's work, ongoing project-based assessments, and so on help educators make sure their students are ready for whatever life hands them--in and out of the workplace.
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Graphic OrganizersGraphic organizers are charts, pictures, tables and other methods that teachers and students can use to organize, compare, contrast or otherwise view information in ways that help them understand all forms of literature, from grocery lists to forms of poetry.
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Reading StagesStudents learn to read in stages. Emergent readers are just beginning to recognize and match letters and sounds, beginning readers take that recognition of words a step further and start to put them together in a meaningful way. Fluent readers use lots of sight words, pictures and other clues to better their skills. By middle school, readers use their skills to understand and prepare themselves for high school and beyond.
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Spelling StagesJust as students learn to read in stages, students also learn to spell in several stages. Those who are emerging spellers are typically very young, with little-to-no skills with the alphabet, and then they move up to beginning spellers as they start understanding letter sounds and word parts. Transitional spellers are able to spell most simple and sight words correctly. As students become more advanced spellers, they are able to understand and correctly spell words using information derived from other sources.
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