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Welcome to our FAQ on teaching solutions.  Solutions are defined as key areas within education that focus on a particular scholastic need. Such as Intervention (RTI), which allows for educators to identify areas for student improvement.

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Assessment

The term assessment generally refers to activities teachers use to gauge student progress and tailor instruction to help students learn. Though the notion of assessment is generally more complicated than the following categories suggest, it is often divided for the sake of convenience using these distinctions: formative and summative, objective and subjective, referencing, informal and formal.

English Language Learners (ELL)

The term English language learner (ELL) refers to a person that is in the process of learning and mastering English, but whose primary language is not English. Other terms commonly used to describe this type of learner include language minority students (LMS), limited English proficient (LEP), English as a second language (ESL), and culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD).

Fluency

Reading fluency describes the ability of a child to read successfully. Successful reading is defined as reading with accuracy and automaticity, with expression and with proper speed and intonation. Children will not be able to comprehend text if they do not become fluent readers.

Leveled Readers (LR)

Leveled readers help students reinforce skills through practice while fostering a love of reading. Curriculum content is "leveled" – a system of establishing text difficulty by evaluating features such as language use, sentence structure, story elements and more. Assessments determine the level at which a student reads, and then books are matched to that level - books that are challenging enough for the student to make progress, but not so difficult they cause frustration. Leveled reading texts from Pearson help educators provide appropriate materials for every student.

Response to Intervention (RTI)

RTI focuses on early identification of learning and behavioral needs and the provision of appropriate evidence-based interventions in order to address skill gaps early to keep them from becoming larger issues (National Education Association, 2006). RTI is a process where students struggling in an academic or behavioral area will receive immediate intervention without any wait time.

Understanding by Design (UBD)

UbD* represents an increasingly popular tool for educational planning that is focused on "teaching for understanding". The emphasis of UbD is on backward design - the practice of looking at the outcomes in order to design curriculum units, performance assessments, and classroom instruction.

*Understanding by Design” is registered as a trademark with the Patent and Trademark Office by the Association for Supervision of Curriculum Development (ASCD). ASCD has not authorized or sponsored this work and is in no way affiliated with Pearson or its products.

Grammar (Gr)

A set of structural rules that govern the composition of clauses, phrases, and words in any given natural language. The term also refers to the study of such rules, and includes morphology, syntax, and phonology, often complemented by phonetics, semantics, and pragmatics. Linguists do not normally use the term to refer to orthographical rules, although usage books and style guides that call themselves grammars may also refer to spelling and punctuation.

Phonics (Aa)

An area of literacy that teaches speakers of English to read and write the language. Phonics involves teaching students how to connect the sounds of spoken English with letters or groups of letters (e.g., that the sound /k/ can be represented by c, k, ck, ch, or q spellings), and teaching them to blend the sounds of letters together to produce approximate pronunciations of unknown words.

Professional Development (PD)

Teacher growth and classroom achievement are essential in the education market place.  Professional Development offers capacity-building models that include solutions focused on bridging the gap between knowledge acquisition and application, job embedded coaching and modeling, technology integration, and differentiated teaching strategies.

21st Century Learners (P21)

Twenty-first-century learning empowers today's students to be academically competitive in global situations; good citizens within their community, country, and world; and effective within their workplace. It means that education must engage new technologies, equip students with rigorous academic coursework, and foster innovation and creativity.