LETRS Unit 8 Assessment Answers
1). If a class is at grade level in reading achievement, what can the teacher expect of the
class's writing achievement?
Ans: Significantly more students will be proficient in reading that in writing.
2). What is the main reason why writing is learned slowly and with effort over a long time?
Ans: Writing depends on many different motor, language, memory, and cognitive
abilities.
3). Which of the following teaching practices was not recommended in the review of research
published by the institute for education sciences (2012)?
Ans: Emphasizes the individual's voice in a writers workshop model.
4). What is the most important reason for teaching students how to form letters, spell, and
puctuate?
Ans: These skills enable better quality and longer compositions.
5). What would be the best way to begin teaching students how to write a sentence?
Ans: Explain that a complete sentence has a subject (the naming part) and a predicate
(the action or doing/being part).
6). If the goal of a lesson was teaching students different types of end punctuation, which
activity would be most relevant?
Ans: distinguishing among the four basic sentence types
7). What is likely to be the most helpful support when preparing students to write a narrative?
Ans: Teach students to use a Story Grammar graphic organizer to plan their narrative.
8). Which of the topic sentences below would be most appropriate for teaching students to
write a descriptive, informational report about african elephants?
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1). If a class is at grade level in reading achievement, what can the teacher expect of the
class's writing achievement?
Ans: Significantly more students will be proficient in reading that in writing.
2). What is the main reason why writing is learned slowly and with effort over a long time?
Ans: Writing depends on many different motor, language, memory, and cognitive
abilities.
3). Which of the following teaching practices was not recommended in the review of research
published by the institute for education sciences (2012)?
Ans: Emphasizes the individual's voice in a writers workshop model.
4). What is the most important reason for teaching students how to form letters, spell, and
puctuate?
Ans: These skills enable better quality and longer compositions.
5). What would be the best way to begin teaching students how to write a sentence?
Ans: Explain that a complete sentence has a subject (the naming part) and a predicate
(the action or doing/being part).
6). If the goal of a lesson was teaching students different types of end punctuation, which
activity would be most relevant?
Ans: distinguishing among the four basic sentence types
7). What is likely to be the most helpful support when preparing students to write a narrative?
Ans: Teach students to use a Story Grammar graphic organizer to plan their narrative.
8). Which of the topic sentences below would be most appropriate for teaching students to
write a descriptive, informational report about african elephants?
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