The type of language we should use in our teacher letter.
What is professional or educational language?
100
The hard copy that was suggested we bring to class tonight.
What is our lesson plan?
100
The teacher and parent role exchange exercise was used for this purpose.
What is seeing issues from a different perspective.
100
Huge variations in scored writing mean the scorers need this.
What is practice?
100
The nice ladies who gave us last week's review.
Who are Christi and Breana?
200
The type language we should use in the parent letter.
What is general terms?
200
Content objectives begin with this.
Which type of objective begins with 'Student will be able to...' (SWBAT)?
200
We must use empathy when dealing with these people.
Who is everyone.
200
We use these to say "look at this author's text and writing." It instills natural motivation within the students.
What is a mentor text?
200
We can use this strategy when scoring writing to remove bias views.
What is typing their papers (without names)?
300
Our Parent/Teacher letters should include references to these syntheses.
What are all the syntheses/assessments we have done with one student.
300
Language objectives include these.
Which objective includes terms of expressive language and/or orally describing or writing?
300
To figure out the norm for grade level writing, we could bring in an outsider and allow them to norm the students' writing. We will then refer to these scored and chosen norm papers as this.
What are anchor papers?
300
Opinion pieces should focus on this.
What is organization?
300
When grading writing, we should focus on this.
What is what you've already taught.
400
Our Parent and Teacher letters should be in this format.
What is business format?
400
These are the areas of background information we should have in our lesson plans.
What are routines and content?
400
We should not focus on this over other areas of writing if we want the students to enjoy the writing process.
What are conventions?
400
These are ways that we can assess without using pencil and paper. (must have at least two examples)
What are: "Ticket out the Door," informal, observations, discussions, etc.
400
We should avoid this focus by letting students explore and with their writing. By avoiding this focus, the learning about this topic will come naturally as they discover.
What is grammar?
500
Our Parent letter should not include this jargon.
What is educational/professional jargon.
500
This is not required, at all, on our lesson plan.
What is the reflection portion of our lesson plan?
500
This grows with time by working with others and practicing scoring writing.
What is confidence?
500
To complete this activity, have students draw a fruit with seeds. Explain to the students that a single seed is one topic. Have them write about one seed or topic.
What is the watermelon activity?
500
Within the 5th grade ELA writing standards we went over last week, the key words/phrases "link ideas," "organize," "a variety of transitional words," and "provide a concluding statement" all focus on this aspect of writing.