If a class is at grade level in reading achievement, what can the teacher expect of the class's writing achievement? - correct answer ✔✔Significantly more students will be proficient in reading than in writing.
What is the main reason why writing is learned slowly and with effort over a long time? - correct answer✔✔Writing depends on many different motor, language, memory, and cognitive abilities.
Which of the following teaching practices was not recommended in the review of research published by the Institute for Education Sciences (2012)? - correct answer ✔✔Emphasize the individual's voice in a writer's workshop model.
What is the most important reason for teaching students how to form letters, spell, and punctuate? - correct answer✔✔These skills enable better quality and longer compositions.
What would be the best way to begin teaching students how to write a sentence? - correct answer✔✔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 activity would be most relevant? - correct answer ✔✔NOT converting sentence fragments into complete sentences and NOT rearranging separate words into complete sentences that make sense
What is likely to be the most helpful support when preparing students to write a narrative? - correct answer✔✔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 a descriptive, informational report about African elephants? - correct answer ✔✔African elephants are large, intelligent mammals who live on the savanna.