6+1 Traits
Why should teachers use 6 +1 traits when teaching?
Provides a tool to help note students strengths and weaknesses in the writing process.
What is a Noun?
A person, place or thing
The planning stage of the writing process, often when graphic organizers are used
Prewriting
Encoding and generating from memory all the letters that correspond to a spoken word
Spelling
A scoring guide that seeks to evaluate a students performance based on the sum of a full range of criteria
Rubrics
There are 6 +1 traits of good writing including ideas, organization, word choice, and voice. What are the other 3 traits
Sentence fluency, conventions, and presentation
What are some ways to increase vocabulary in the classroom?
(needs 2 of the listed) High quality language in the classroom, read alouds, vocab instruction, word learning strategies, and independent reading
The focus of the writing workshop is on this rather than the process that leads to a finished product.
The writers
This is the style of writing instruction that is meant to ease the learning of cursive and print
D'Nealian
A rubric is a _______ for students in order to get the students to think about the criteria on which their work will be graded on.
Working guide
What is said to be the “heart of the message”
Ideas
What is one word learning strategy?
Context clues, use of resources(dictionary), using meaningful parts (prefix, suffix, word family)
The bridge between shared writing and independent writing
Guided writing
The perception that a written text is of poor quality can result from this aspect
Rubrics help teachers _________ the quality of their direct instructions by providing focus and emphasis to particular details as a model for students
Increase
_______ is the flow of the language, the sound of word patterns.
Sentence Fluency
What is a compound Sentence? (provide an example)
A compound sentence is made of two or more simple sentences joined together. (My friend has a cat named blue, and he looks just like a cloud)
The acronym TAP stands for these three considerations that writers attend to during prewriting
Task, Audience, Purpose
This is the knowledge of how to connect the sound of spoken English with letters or groups of letters
Spelling phonics
This rubric provides useful feedback on area of strength and weakness while the criterion can be weighted to reflect the relative importance of each dimension
Analytic
What is analytic assessment?
A method of looking at the main characteristics of writing and assessing them independently from one another.
Which tier of explicit instruction should you use during vocabulary instruction… 1: basic words 2: words with general use but not common 3: rare words limited to a specific domain?
2: words with general use but not common
Name two of the essential characteristics of writing workshops
Choices about content, time for writing, teaching, talking, periods of focused study, publication rituals, high expectations of safety, structured management
The following
A word’s language of origin and history of use can explain it’s spelling
A word’s meaning or part of speech can explain it’s spelling
The 5 principles of English spelling
This rubrics disadvantage consist of not providing specific feedback for improvement and its criteria cannot be weighted. What rubric is this?
Holistic