LETRS Unit 8 Assessment

If a class is at grade level in reading achievement, what can the teacher expect of the class's writing achievement?

Significantly more students will be proficient in reading that in writing.

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 technique would be least effective for helping students through the reviewing and revising phase of the writing process?

typing the student's composition so he or she can read it more easily`

What is the main reason why writing is learned slowly and with effort over a long time?

Writing depends on many different motor, language, memory, and cognitive abilities.

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).

Which of the topic sentences below would be most appropriate for teaching students to write a descriptive, informational report about African elephants?

African elephants are large, intelligent mammals who live on the savanna.

Which of the following teaching practices was not recommended in the review of research published by the institute for Education Sciences (2012)?

Emphasizes the individual's voice in a writers workshop model.

What is the most important reason for teaching students how to form letters, spell, and puctuate?

These skills enable better quality and longer compositions.

Which is a practical and valid way to monitor student progress in written composition?

by counting and graphing the correct word sequences (CWS) in a writing probe

If the goal of a lesson was teaching students different types of end punctuation, which activity would be most relevant?

distinguishing among the four basic sentence types