Letrs Unit 8 Assessment Answers

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

Answer: Significantly more students will be proficient in reading than in writing.

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

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

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

Answer: Emphasize the individual's voice in a writer's workshop model.

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

Answer: These skills enable better quality and longer compositions.

Question: What would be the best way to begin teaching students how to write a sentence?

Answer: Explain that a complete sentence has a subject (the naming part) and a predicate (the action or doing/being part).

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

Answer: NOT converting sentence fragments into complete sentences and NOT rearranging separate words into complete sentences that make sense

Question: What is likely to be the most helpful support when preparing students to write a narrative?

Answer: Teach students to use a Story Grammar graphic organizer to plan their narrative.

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

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

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

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

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

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