What data would you gather to determine a student's writing development? How would you apply what you determine from the data to develop instructional plans?
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Ques. 2An ideal instructional format for dealing with all aspects of writing is the writing workshop. The success of writing workshops is predicated on five principles. List the five principles and detail at least three benefits of promoting writing among students.
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Ques. 3Compose a response to parents who express concern that students will learn bad habits if they are not expected to correct mechanical grammatical errors in first drafts.
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Ques. 4Consider the following misspellings. Given the nature of the errors, in what spelling stage should the student be placed? saveing (saving) bitting (biting) trenchs (trenches) lumpped (lumped)
A) the structural spelling stage
B) the phonetic spelling stage
C) the prephonetic spelling stage
D) the meaning derivational stage
Ques. 5What is the relationship between cognitive development and oral language in writing development?
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Ques. 6The difference between journals and learning logs is that ________.
A) journals are meant to remain private
B) journals do not require teacher response
C) learning logs are more public than journals
D) learning logs are generally more subject-oriented
Ques. 7Stories, poetry, plays, and other forms of literature can be used by students as models for their own writing structures. This is called __________.
A) mentor text
B) folk tales
C) graphic organizers
D) topic clusters
Ques. 8A story impression consists of having students write a synopsis from a list of words and phrases that are essential to the story.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Ques. 9Planning and ________ are generally associated with prewriting.
A) drafting
B) organizing
C) re-evaluating
D) editing
Ques. 10As students develop writing skills, they gain control over the conventions of written language; these include sentence and paragraph structure, spelling, ________.
A) punctuation, and linguistics
B) mechanics, and comprehension
C) mechanics, and punctuation
D) process, and subject matter
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