grade-appropriate
- adjective
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adecuado para el grado
- In one LEA, students read aloud from a different grade-appropriate passage of consistent difficulty each week throughout the school year.
- grade-appropriate material
- grade-appropriate curriculum
- grade-appropriate passage
Examples
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Each weekday, readers are provided with standards-aligned, grade-appropriate news stories to read.
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The lesson was designed to be grade-appropriate, ensuring all students could understand the material.
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In this condition, however, the activities were related more to the grade-appropriate curriculum than to the specific needs of individual students.
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The material may or may not be drawn from the students' grade-appropriate curriculum.
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Only when SETs provide direct initial instruction in academic content do they need to demonstrate grade-appropriate subject matter knowledge.
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All the teachers indicated that the passages were grade appropriate.
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If this is true, then setting growth standards based on age/grade-appropriate material would be important, especially for beginning readers.
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Put another way, when reading grade-appropriate material, these students have difficulty with basic comprehension of the text they read.
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In practice, schools implementing CBM procedures to monitor growth have decided to use age/grade-appropriate reading materials.
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The majority of the literacy standards focus on students analyzing complex, grade-appropriate texts to support their written arguments with evidence.
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Synonyms
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3.5
Right for a particular situation, person, or purpose
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2.5
Good enough for a particular use or standard
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1.8
Right for a certain purpose, person, or situation
How Suitable
Surface Forms
Morphology
grade-appropriate = grade + appropriate (transparent) = grade + appropriate
Clear modifier-noun combination: 'grade' specifies the domain for 'appropriate', yielding an obvious meaning for learners.
Etymology
The phrase grade-appropriate joins grade (a 'level' or school year) and appropriate ('right for'). Imagine a staircase where each step is a grade, and something grade-appropriate fits the right step, so it is material that is suitable for that school level.