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Handwriting
Writing Processes
Environmental influences
Assessment and Record Keeping
Strategies for supporting spelling and grammar
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Dexterity, hand-eye coordination, spatial awareness, trunk control, and shoulder stability.
What skills are required for students to develop proficient handwriting?
100
Pre-writing, rough draft, peer editing, revising, editing, final draft, publishing.
What are the 7 stages of the writing process?
100
Temperature, heating and air quality.
The most important environmental elements to maintain student achievement within the classroom are..
100
To determine the students current level of skills and knowledge in order to plan for ongoing development.
What is the purpose of assessment?
100
Words used to describe a noun or a pronoun; for example, It was a "beautiful" song/ There was no doubt that she was an "extremely valuable" horse.
What is an adjective?
200
This term describes a child's ability to copy shapes, letters or numbers. Specifically, it means using vision to guide written output.
What are visual motor skills?
200
The teacher writes and verbalizes what they are doing in front of the children, demonstrating that ideas can be recorded on paper.
What is modelled writing.
200
-understanding the speech of others -reading and spelling ability -attention and concentration -behaviour and communication -academic achievement
What affects can a noisy classroom have on student performance?
200
National Assessment Program Literacy and Numeracy measure.
What is NAPLAN?
200
Words that indicate spatial, temporal or logical relationships of an object, to the rest of the sentence. For example, on, in, over, under etc.
What is a preposition?
300
This term describes a child's ability to use visual information to make meaning of what he sees. When learning letters a child must be able to recognize letters, recall what a letter looks like and discriminate between two familiar letters such as "b" and "p".
What is visual perception?
300
A teaching process where teachers and children write together. Children participate as writers and develop concepts such as directional movements.
What is shared writing?
300
Buzzing and flickering lights, clutter, decorations that are vivid in colour, loud and vibrant patterns, sudden noises (fire alarm, timers, bells, etc.), students too close or brushing up against each other, unusual smells (certain foods, dry erase board markers, cleaning supplies, carpet, mold, etc.), and crowded and chaotic classroom spaces.
A sensory overload in the classroom environment looks like this...
300
Evidence of writing capability. This includes samples of - independent writing - spelling of words (including invented spelling) - students perceptions of their own writing abilities/
What are writing records?
300
Read aloud from a big book, pausing to discuss the meaning of commas, full stops, exclamation marks, question marks, and quotation marks.
Strategies that can support student understanding of punctuation:
400
Children who find this difficult struggle to produce the fine motor movements required for writing and may try to brace their arm against their side as they work.
How do you know if a child has poor trunk or should control?
400
Children are directed by the teacher to write individually or in small groups and expand their writing knowledge from their name to other words and then sentences.
What is guided writing?
400
May be a cause for the decline of student performance as attention span, concentration, comprehension and the retaining of information can be influenced by where the student is positioned.
What is the effect of poorly planned seating arrangements on student learning?
400
Analysis of writing samples, focused observation checklists, rubrics and student self assessment.
What are some examples of how to assess student writing skills?
400
To support the writing of simple sentences; To assist with exploration of various sentence structures; To stimulate and challenge student creativity in writing.
How can the support worker make use of sentence starters?
500
Activities that teach children to remember and recall the shape of letters using memory and monitoring skills. For example, air writing and making shapes out of play dough or string.
What are kinaesthetic writing techniques?
500
Children practice their writing skills, and using strategies they have learned to support reading and writing development.
What is independent writing?
500
Classrooms that incorporate print into many areas of the environment; where students can access a range of resources to supporting writing. Word banks, word cards, word walls, print from other cultures, text prompts and story maps, are examples of how to create one of these.
What is a print rich environment?
500
A process where by the student independently uses tools such as checklists, conferencing, critical self reflection, and evaluation to assess their own work.
What is student self assessment?
500
Thrass, sounding out, chunking, and making use of rhyming patterns.
What are some examples of strategies to support spelling skills?