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This kind of writer will write about things they know about
What are good writers?
Aesthetic responses to these illustrated texts are a good place to start with very young writers, prompting them to write about what they see on the page
What are picture books?
This is of the utmost importance for any student to become a good writer
What is comprehensibility?
In English, spacing and left-to-right orientation are aspects of this
What is print?
On a divided page, students can use the top part to do this before writing
What is practice?
If a teacher hears this from a student, they can reply "what have you been reading about?"
What is "I don't know what to write about"?
Good writers use these parts of speech to help readers paint a picture in their minds.
What are action verbs and describing words?
Students can do this if the text they wrote does not make sense
What is revise and edit?
These kinds of words are useful for teaching spelling patterns in writing, and their exceptions
What are rhyming words?
Students can do this to count how many syllables they hear
Birthday parties and sports, for example
What are students' knowledge and experiences?
In a narrative text, it is the sequencing of events, which has a beginning, middle, and end
What is story grammar?
Revision is not just used to correct mistakes, students can also use revision to do this with a text
What is adding more information and making the text more interesting?
These terms (eg. verb, noun, vowel) can give students a vocabulary for talking about written English
What are literate terms?
This is probably the most common strategy students use for word-solving
What is saying the word slowly and listening for the sounds?