The DLM® project is guided by the core belief that all students should have access to challenging grade-level content. The new DLM Alternate Assessment System will let students with significant cognitive disabilities show what they know in ways that traditional multiple-choice tests cannot. The DLM system is designed to map a student's learning throughout the year. The system will use items and tasks that are embedded in day-to-day instruction. In this way, testing happens as part of instruction, which both informs teaching and benefits students. An end of the year assessment will be created for states that want to include a summative test in addition to the instructionally embedded system.
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"The Word Cloud feature enables you to use Word Banks or selected text to create and display word lists or "clouds" for use when writing, filling in worksheets, or taking tests."
The Word Cloud feature enables you to use Word Banks or selected text to create and display word lists or "clouds" for use when writing, filling in worksheets, or taking tests. Students can use these as prompts or to have key vocabulary words at the ready when writing an essay on a specific topic. Teachers can use this feature for fill in the blank vocabulary worksheets or use to instruct students to use particular vocabulary words when writiing an essay.
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"Seasonal change is all around us. We see it in the length of a day, in the appearance of a flower, in the flight of a butterfly. Journey North engages students and citizen scientists around the globe in tracking wildlife migration and seasonal change. Participants share field observations across the northern hemisphere, exploring the interrelated aspects of seasonal change.
Sunlight and the Seasons
Discovering how sunlight drives seasonal change by tracking changes in day length, or photoperiod.
Plants and the Seasons
Exploring plant growth in tulip test gardens, running an experiment to track the arrival of spring.
Seasonal Migrations
Following animal migrations. Observing, reporting, and tracking travels across the hemisphere.
Journey North is a free, Internet-based program presented by Annenberg Learner, a division of the Annenberg Foundation."
"A comprehensive suite of supports for struggling students; including reading, writing, study skills, and test taking."
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Description: This includes practice tests (in practice mode or quiz mode) for Kindergarten English, 5th Grade Reading, 3rd Grade History, 4th Grade Virginia History, 5th Grade US History, 4th Grade Math, 5th Grade Math, 7th Grade Math, Kindergarten Computer Technology, 5th Grade Computer Technology, and 8th Grade Computer Technology.
"Our free Text Readability Consensus Calculator takes a sample of your writing and calculates the number of sentences, words, syllables, and characters in your sample. Our program takes the output of these numbers and plugs them into 7 popular readability formulas. These 7 readability formulas (see below) will help you find out the reading level and grade level of your materials and help you to determine if your audience can read your materials."