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What methodology recognizes that children may have themental but not the mechanical skills to present their own writing?

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Language Experience

Helps students to relateoral and written language by having them jointly create a writing about ashared experience that they can then use for reading activities. The children’soral telling of the experience is written down by the teacher, so those whowouldn’t by ready to write themselves can participate fully.

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What is a fluency workshop?

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A method involving theteacher having 5 min reading/writing assessment conferences with each studentwhile others do center-based activities related to reading fluency. Studentwill read aloud and no special provision is made for any skills that don’tmatch.

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What is the writing process approach

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essentially expects eachchild to write her or his own composition and share it

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What is writing to read 2000?

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a computer-basedprogram that provides structured reading-writing practice for children inkindergarten and first grade. At this age, the skills of presenting their ownwriting are not really an issue yet.

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During which stage of the writing process can teachersbest help students to respond to the content of their own writing through theeyes of their classmates?

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revising

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what is revising?

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share writing with a groupand use suggestions to revise

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what is prewrite?

drafting?

edit?

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producing and organizingideas

getting ideas on paper. Notready for critique

polish what they wrote andget group feedback

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Which would leastlikely be included in a first grade writing center?

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Phonics workbooks.

They do not directly encourage writing

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Would alphabet strips, journal notebooks and unlined paper be included in a first grade writing center?

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yes.

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· What factor most distinguishes capable from less capablewriters? Capable writers have the ability to..

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vary writing depending onpurposes and audience

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Capable readers can....

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decode, ask for feedbackand use a variety of strategies

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What is characteristic of a developmentally appropriate classroom?

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Meaningful oral andwritten interaction are modeled and encouraged

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What activity or approach to teaching includes teacher and studentssharing time, minilessons, checking on the state of the class, and workshopactivities?

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There are all apart of a .... Writing workshop

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The discussion web involves

a) a full workshop

b) a single strategy

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b.

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what is a pre-reading plan workshop?

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identifying key concepts,discussion associations with the concepts, and restructuring the associationsto form new interpretations.

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· What best facilitates the use of writer’s workshop in theK-3 classroom?

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A writing center is essential for this.

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Decodable books are intended to help emergent readers learn...

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particular phonic rulesor patterns.

it is not a writing workshop technique.

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Which activity is appropriate for modeling the proper useof punctuation to emergent readers and writers?

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Interactive writing

emergentreaders/writers participate actively with their teachers in writing a message,word for word, including spacing and punctuation. The teacher often must callstudents’ attention to punctuation, as they are less likely to notice it naturally.

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Quickwrites[akafreewrites] are...

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impromptu, rambling writing tasks in response to a topic. Typically, students are allowed a great deal of freedom and punctuation, spelling and mechanics are not critiqued

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story maps are...

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diagrams that representthe structure of a story. Unrelated to punctuation.

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a word wall is a

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visual display of vocabulary words

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What is most promising in motivating students to writelonger pieces?

and why?

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Word-processing programs

because they allow for the ability to move ideasaround, produce neat readable text. Motivating for increased fluency and greaterlength.

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Dictation Task assessment is

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used to determine kindergartenand grade 1 student’s knowledge of letters, phonics and words

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Scope-and-sequence charts are

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curriculum frameworksprovided with basal reader series to indicate at what stage a skill shouldfirst be introduced and at what stage it should be practiced.

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Semantic Feature analysis is...

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A vocabulary exploration exercisein which students classify related words according to a list of distinguishing characteristics

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Which scenario represents an appropriate env’t forliteracy instruction for a student with ADD?

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Use writing activitieswhich require the student to respond actively.

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In which stage of writing development do childrenrestrict their writing to one or two consonants per word?

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Early phonemic.

During this stage, usually the beginning and ending sounds of words are used

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Letter naming stage in writing involves

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beginning to use vowels

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the pre phonemic stage in writing involves

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child uses letters areplaceholders but are only meaningful to them

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transitional stage in writing involves..

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child produces words in a mixtureof conventional and phonetic spelling

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what activity promotes both responding to and writing aboutliterature? why?

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Double-entry journal

Areading log in which students copy down quotes from a book they are reading andwrite comments and reflections about it.

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What is an anticipation guide?

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Discussion pointsstudents use before reading content areas

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What does choral reading help develop?

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fluency

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What doe close procedure help develop?

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reading fluency andconfidence since student learns to guess meaning of unfamiliar words by lookingat them in the context of an entire sentence or passage.

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A study of the dev’tal stages of writing reveals that children begin towrite using which unit to represent their meaning?

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Letters

usually 1 -2letters to represent words. Then progress to using words.

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Which stage of the writing process is usuallydeemphasized for emergent writers?

Why?

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Revising.

general guidelines forworking with emergent writers suggest that revising should be de-emphasized. Asnoted, they tend to write just one draft and the concept of revising to meetthe needs of others just doesn’t matter yet.

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Why may publishing be a positive for emergent writers?

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it may not actually matter and they may not grasp the concept in a whole but they often enjoy reading their work aloud and sharing it.

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What is an activity that will best students to understand thesocial nature of writing?

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Buddy journals

It is a social activity.

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what is a buddy journal?

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2 students write to eachother about what they have been reading and this emphasizes the social nature ofwriting through shared experiences

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what is a double entry journal?

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a reading log previouslydiscussed. A solo activity. Not social.

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What is an integral part of both pre-reading and pre-writing activities?

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activating prior knowledge

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Clarifying misunderstandings is common to

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the third stage, called Responding in reading and Revising in writing.

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Reflecting on the process is most associated with

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the fifth stage of writing, the Publishing stage.

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Responding to literature is associated with

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stages 3 (Responding), 4 (Exploring), and 5 (Applying) of reading.

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What is the first stage in the development of writing behaviors?

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scribbling

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scribbling

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A child's first attempts at "writing" are typically drawings and scribbles that gradually become more purposeful and more like actual words or letters.

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Which classroom practice best supports the research finding that the stages of the writing process merge and recur as children write?

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Every day students report their progress through the stages.

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Research shows that the stages of the writing process are not neatly

-a student may move back and forth through them throughout the process.-

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linear.

-it is iterative.-

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In which part of a guided reading and writing workshop do teachers share the pen to help children learn increasingly sophisticated writing strategies?

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interactive writing

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interactive writing

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shows students how writing works, with students writing the familiar parts of words and the teacher helping to draw out and fill in the less familiar elements.

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What is most promising for assisting students in presenting their writing to an audience?

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word-processing programs

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word-processing programs

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have a number of benefits, including the ability to move ideas around (making drafting more fun and less intimidating) and produce a neat, readable text. Students often find the opportunity to use a word-processor motivates them to write more fluently and at greater length, and they are thus likely to feel more confident in presenting their final product.

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Manuscript handwriting may make a student's writing

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easier to read, if he or she has not mastered legible cursive, but stepping back to this earlier method is not likely to make it any easier for the student to present writing to an audience.

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Content learning centers integrate literacy and content areas such as math, science, and social studies. What is one of the criteria for selecting and arranging literacy tools and materials?

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authenticity

should be one of the paramount concerns a teacher has when choosing literacy props/tools/materials.

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Interactive writing is intended for use by which population?

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emergent readers and writers

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Students with a hearing deficit are no more likely to benefit from interactive writing than

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students who can hear.

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Students with attention deficit disorder can participate in interactive writing if they are

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emergent writers

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At what stage of writing do children first demonstrate that they understand letters represent sounds?

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early phonemic

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Which is an example of an authentic literacy experience?

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writing a note to a friend

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What will assist students in the process of editing grammar and punctuation of a piece of writing?

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proofreaders' marks

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Benchmark skills are

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evidence-based reading skills defined by accountability standards. They are not related to correcting one's writing.

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Marginal glosses

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are typically provided as an aid to reading for English language learners. They are not related to correcting one's writing.

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Metacognition strategies

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are generally related to how well readers check or monitor their understanding of text. They are related to correcting understanding, not grammar and punctuation errors.

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Which classroom environment integrates real life activities to foster writing?

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literacy play centers

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Literacy play centers are

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classroom activity centers that have been enhanced with materials that encourage literacy development. For example, a play kitchen can be equipped with food packages and a memo pad for making a pretend grocery list.

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institutional environment is a

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a classroom with the uniform appearance common to hospitals, prisons, and factories. It does not provide students with real-life experiences. Most theorists consider it desirable to convert an institutional environment to a more homelike environment.

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Skills centers are

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places for the teacher to work with small groups on something like phonics skills.

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Word walls are a

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place in the classroom where the teacher posts new words that students have learned. They are an excellent addition to the environment, but they do not relate to real-life experience.

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Which stage of the writing process especially conveys to students that writing serves a social function?

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publishing

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Publishing

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students in sharing their writing products with real audiences, both as final written copies and orally. This is the most clearly social stage of the writing process.

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Under which category should teachers include grammar and punctuation when constructing a rubric for student writing?

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mechanics

Mechanics addresses spelling, punctuation, capitalization, neatness, and appropriateness of form to content.

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The inclusion of which practice in the writing process will especially assist young readers in developing a sense of audience?

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author's chair

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In reading logs,

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students write comments about what they have been reading that will be looked at only by the teacher. Awareness of audience is not central to this activity.

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Which component of the Writers Workshop is appropriate for assisting all students with understanding when to use the semi-colon?

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minilesson

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minilesson

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Minilessons are short sessions, usually 5 to 15 minutes, in which the teacher focuses on one piece of information (such as use of the semicolon) that students need to learn.

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In the sharing phase of Writers Workshop

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students read what they have written and support each other's accomplishments

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In the writing phase of Writers Workshop,

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students are encouraged to work independently, seeking out the teacher or other writers as needed. An individual student who needs help on semicolons could certainly get it during the writing phase, but that would not accomplish the goal of teaching the entire group.