Vocabulary+Development+-+Context+Clues+Scale

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 * ** Marzano’s Generic Scale ** ||
 * SCORE 5.0 || More complex content ||
 * SCORE 4.0 || Target learning Goal ||
 * SCORE 3.0 || Simpler content ||
 * SCORE 2.0 || With help, partial success of score 2.0, or basic or elemental content ||
 * SCORE 10 || Even with help, no success ||

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== || =Here are some FCAt test questions that I believe match up with this target. Do the demands of the questions match up to the targets as I have defined them in the "scale"?= =//Items taken from Draft FCAT Reading:Test Item Specifications Grades 9-10// [|FCAT Test Specs]=
 * ** Vocabulary Development – Context Clues ** ||
 * **SCORE 5.0 ** || **Student applies a wide range of vocabulary strategies to unfamiliar and conceptually challenging texts to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words and phrases with nuanced meanings and relationships. ** ||
 * **SCORE 4.0 ** || **Student uses the context of a sentence and larger sections of text to clarify and infer the meaning of unknown or ambiguous words or phrases, detect nuances, infer connotations, and differentiate among multiple possible meanings of words and phrases in texts that have complicated syntax structures, i.e. poetry. ** ||
 * **SCORE 3.0 ** || ==Student uses the context of a sentence to clarify the meaning of unknown or ambiguous words in sentence with simple syntax structures.
 * **SCORE 2.0 ** || Student has a partial understanding of how to use context clues to determing the meaning of unfamiliar words. ||
 * **SCORE 1.0 ** || **Student is unable to use the context of a sentence or larger sections of text to clarify the meaning of unknown or ambiguous words.** ||

The sample item below is based on “Woman with Flower/Offspring” on page H–12. **__Target complexity 4.0__** Read these lines from “Woman with Flower.”

The leaf’s inclined to find its own direction;

Give it a chance to seek the sunlight for itself. Based on the rest of the poem, which sentence best restates the meaning of the lines above?

A. The leaf isolates itself from other leaves.

B. The leaf wants to create its own illusions.

<span style="color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">C. <span style="color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">The leaf prefers to seek its own destination.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">D. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">The leaf avoids previously established paths.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">Which phrase best describes both the gardener in “Woman with Flower” and the speaker of “Offspring”? **__High complexity 5.0__**

<span style="color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">A. <span style="color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">devoted, but anxious

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">B. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">distressed, but cautious

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">C. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">attentive, but impractical

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">D. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">industrious, but indecisive

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">Read the excerpt from the passage. **__Low 3.0__**

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">I showed him how to keep his fly from dragging, how to fish the deeper pools. He was absorbed by the whys and the hows and the execution. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">In which sentence does //execution// have the same meaning as used in the excerpt above?

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">A. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">Execution of that computer program might cause the entire system to shut down.

<span style="color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">B. <span style="color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">After agreeing on the terms of the sale, the execution of the deed to the house will be finalized.

<span style="color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">C. <span style="color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">The committee’s plan was sound, but its faulty execution caused a delay in starting the project.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">D. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">The execution of the terms of his final will and testament should occur as soon as the judge approves it.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">Read this sentence from the passage.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">The warmth of the sun raised the water temperature enough to awaken the rainbow and cutthroat trout that slumbered, and the caddis flies

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">were dancing their erratic dance, here and there, over the water. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">What does the word //erratic// mean as used in the sentence above? **__Low 3.0__**

<span style="color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">A. <span style="color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">aimless

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">B. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">graceful

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">C. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">leisurely

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">D. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">swift