Purposes for writing
Writing that is used to express our opinions.
What is Expressive writing?
The essential skill students need as they enter adult life.
What is writing?
The science concerned with the study of speech processes, including the production, perception and the analysis of sounds.
What is Phonetics?
The comprehension and/or use of a spoken,(listening and speaking), written (reading and writing), and/or other communication symbol systems (e.g., American Sign Language).
What is Language?
Students help each other understand a text and make sense of it. This can teach kids how to use each other as resources and become independent learners.
What is Cooperative Learning?
Writing that is used to educate or explain something to an audience.
What is Informative writing?
simplest way for teachers to make accurate assessments about student learning, and to get a glimpse of the individual thought processes of a large and diverse classroom population.
What is written output?
Catherine McCarthy explains; “A blend combines two words to create a new word. Smog is a blend of smoke plus fog. Mockumentary combines mock and documentary. Jeggings are snug-fitting leggings that look like jeans.”
What is Morphology?
Skills include inferencing; comprehension monitoring; interpretation of complex language, such as jokes and puns; and use of text structure knowledge.
What is Higher Order Language skills?
Literature circles can guide students to deeper understanding of what they read through this?
What is Structured Discussion?
The goal is to change the minds or question their position of the readers.
What is Persuasive writing?
The inability of teenagers to effectively make sense of what they are going through that contributes to behavior and self-esteem.
What is Helping students learn to express themselves with confidence in all subject areas?
Good grammatical sentences have a subject (who and what the sentence is about) and a predicate (information relating to the subject.)
What is syntax?
An impairment in comprehension and/or use of a spoken, written, and/or other communication symbol system such as American Sign Language. It may persist across the lifespan, and symptoms may change over time.
What is a Language Disorder?
Students are invited to bring their experiences and feelings into the classroom and to share them. Research reveals that students drop out primarily because they don't feel connected to a place or its people.
What are Social Experiences?
A form of creative writing, such as fiction or non-fiction, to entertain.
What is Literary work?
Students who write well don’t worry so much about getting their schoolwork done.
What is Students who write clearly, think clearly?
The study of meaning; how we combine words to create meaningful discourse. It studies the relationship between signs and symbols and what they represent.
What is Semantics?
Children with language disorders may also present with this difficultly.
What is Social Communication Disorder?
Choice leads to deeper engagement, increased intrinsic motivation, and an opportunity for guided-decision making.
What is making choices about their learning?
Expressive, Informative, Persuasive and Literary writing.
What are the 4 purposes for writers to write?
Students who do not learn to wield this, will find themselves severely handicapped as they move on from the relative ease of adolescence and confront the immense challenges of adult life.
What is the Power of Writing?
C.W. Morris invented this term in the 1930s Its how we actually use speech in communication, and how context aids the transmission of meaning in utterances.
What is Pragmatics?
A requisite for the development of higher order language skills and is defined as "the ability to think about and reflect upon language".
What is Metalinguistic awareness?
A way for students to engage in critical thinking and reflection as they read, discuss, and respond to books. Also, students reshape and add onto their understanding as they construct meaning with other readers
What is Collaboration?