Exam Engineering Techniques by Jaime Mousty _ Staff - MillbrookES

2025-01-21 20:50:06 UTC

On a recent shape unit assessment, I used the following synonyms:

"make" in place of "build"

"bigger" in place of "larger"

"put" in place of "place"

2025-01-21 20:53:49 UTC

For shape assessment, I used the following sentence starters:

-I know it is a triangle because all triangles____. (Repeat for other shapes)

-These shapes are the same because they both __________.

-These shapes are different because one has _____ and the other __________.

-The square and cube are the same because they both _____. (Repeat for different shapes)

-The square and cube are different because the square has_____, but the cube has ______. (Repeat for different shapes)

2025-01-21 20:54:56 UTC

On the shape assessment, they are asked to compose and draw different shapes, so I put a model of the shape next to the problem.

2025-01-21 20:55:44 UTC

They are asked to identify shapes, so I gave them a word bank of possible answer choices.

2025-01-21 20:59:14 UTC

Students are asked to give a likeness and difference about shapes, which could be chunked into 2 separate tasks.

2025-01-24 00:03:52 UTC

For a science assessment, I added visuals to the questions and answer choices for questions where this would increase the comprehensibility for MLs.

2025-01-24 00:08:38 UTC

For this 4th grade social studies assessment, I created a word bank (on page two) for students to reference as they complete the graphic organizers.

2025-01-24 00:13:57 UTC

I adapted this 5th grade math assessment to include sentence frames. This provides the language structures needed to explain place value concepts.

2025-02-14 20:01:39 UTC

I added synonyms to an article about Jesse Owens...

-Franklin Roosevelt did not congratulate (praise) him.

-African Americans were discriminated against (treated differently) in many ways

-Jesse Owens is recognized properly as the incredible (awesome) athlete he was

2025-02-21 21:15:06 UTC

In a recent summative assessment, I revised the diction and sentence complexity used in the questions so that students were not bogged down by understanding what they needed to do. Ofcourse I kept the academic language that was part of the standard!

2025-05-30 01:28:02 UTC

The strategy I have used most in our ELA classroom is incorporating synonyms into the instructions and prompts. This strategy is helping the students understand what they are asked to do. Therefore, their responses are getting stronger.