achievement, what can the teacher expect of Significantly more students will be
the class’s writing achievement? proficient in reading than in writing.
What is the main reason why writing is
learned slowly and with effort over a long Writing depends on many different
time? motor, language, memory, and
cognitive abilities.
Which of the following teaching practices was
not recommended in the review of research Emphasize the individual’s voice in a
published by the Institute for Education writer’s workshop model.
Sciences (2012)?
What is the most important reason for
teaching students how to form letters, spell, These skills enable better quality and
and punctuate? longer compositions.
What would be the best way to begin teaching
students how to write a sentence? Explain that a complete sentence has
a subject (the naming part) and a
predicate (the action or doing/being
part).
If the goal of a lesson was teaching students
different types of end punctuation, which Distinguishing among the four basic
activity would be most relevant? sentence types.
What is likely to be the most helpful support
when preparing students to write a narrative? Teach students to use a Story
Grammar graphic organizer to plan
their narrative.
Which of the topic sentences below would be
most appropriate for teaching students to write African elephants are large, intelligent
a descriptive, informational report about mammals who live on the savanna.
African elephants?
Which technique would be least effective for
helping students through the reviewing and typing the student’s composition so
revising phase of the writing process? he or she can read it more easily