When the teacher uses 5-10 minutes to introduce or revisit a particular writing skill or strategy, often using his or her own writing as a model, before sending students off to write.
What is a minilesson?
100
The stage of writing during which students add sentences that help clarify the main idea of the piece, adjust their choice of words, and expand on chosen themes.
What is Revising?
100
The spelling young children use when they are first learning the sounds that are made by different letters.
What is inventive spelling?
100
The type of writing used to convince the reader of something.
What is Persuasive Writing?
100
Effective teachers of writing should be writers themselves.
What is TRUE?
200
A book a teacher reads to students to help them learn about a specific writing strategy used by the author.
What is a Mentor Text?
200
The stage of writing in which students share their finished work with others.
What is Publishing?
200
A designated part of the classroom where students can look to find out how to spell familiar sight words.
What is a Word Wall?
200
A type of writing that is neither a narrative or a piece of fiction; its goal is to convey information.
What is expository writing?
200
Rhyming words, repeated sounds, and similes/metaphors are examples of poetic devices.
What is TRUE?
300
A shared journal (or blog site) where a student and teacher converse in writing about a shared text.
What is a Reading Response Journal?
300
The stage of writing in which students write quickly without regard for spelling and punctuation.
What is Drafting?
300
A "shared pen" strategy for teaching writing in which the young student writes letters they can hear within a word and the teacher writes the hard-to-hear letters.
What is Interactive Writing?
300
The five types of informational text structures.
What are Description, Cause & Effect, Problem & Solution, Order & Sequence, and Compare & Contrast?
300
Standardized writing tests benefit students because they provide an authentic purpose for writing.
What is FALSE?
Completing a standardized test is not an authentic purpose for writing. However, standardized tests may be beneficial in that they motivate communities to devote more classroom time to writing instruction.
400
A collection of a student's writing that includes finished work selected by the student, rough drafts, and graphic organizers; it gives an overall view of the student's growth in writing.
What is a portfolio?
400
The stage of writing during which students create a mind map, graphic organizer, or outline.
What is Prewriting?
400
A way in which beginning writers can convey ideas before they are able to write words.
What is drawing?
400
Copying more than five words of another writer's text without assigning proper credit in the form of a citation.
What is plagiarism?
400
A student's awareness of his or her use of strategies to identify and solve potential problems in writing is called authenticity.
What is FALSE?
A student's awareness of his or her use of strategies to identify and solve potential problems in writing is actually called metacognition.
500
A device, sometimes collaboratively constructed by teacher and students, used to set expectations for a piece of writing and to assess students' mastery of designated writing skills.
What is a rubric?
500
The stage of writing in which students review their work carefully and correct any grammar, spelling, or punctuation mistakes.
What is Editing?
500
When (1) a teacher records a story using the students' exact words, (2) the class reads the composition aloud together, and (3) students are given a copy to practice reading independently.
What is language experience?
500
When writing instruction is used in conjunction with teaching information in content areas like social studies, science, or math.
What is Writing Across the Curriculum (or integration)?
500
Descriptive writing techniques are used only in narrative writing.
What is FALSE?
Descriptive writing techniques can actually be used in all types of writing (narrative, informative, fiction, poetry, etc.).