Teaching Writing Skills ProcessSet 1

1What can a teacher do to ensure her students are using the correct mode of writing?
2What techniques, games, and activities are in the pre-writing stage?
3Which scaffolding technique is most useful for helping students organize their thoughts before writing?
4When adapting the tone and style of academic writing for a non-academic context, what should you prioritize?
5Business writing skills can be acquired overnight.
6Prewriting technique that use bullet points to organize or structure your paper
7An English teacher uses peer feedback sessions where students review each other's writing using a checklist. What is the primary learning benefit of this strategy?
8A fifth-grade reading teacher researches pre-writing strategies. Which of the following strategies is she MOST LIKELY to use?
9During this instructional strategy, students take on the primary role of watching and listening, as the teacher does the writing. The purpose of this strategy is to allow students to observe the thought processes that occur as one writes.
10Prewriting strategies such as brainstorming and freewriting can help writers to:
11Which teaching strategy helps students understand different genres of writing?
12Gather information.
13Which of the following do you do during the DRAFTING stage?
14What tool is designed to explain all expectations about the writing assignment?
15What is the body paragraph of an essay? (Define)
16According to Harmer, which of the following is NOT a useful technique for providing feedback on students' writing?
17What is the purpose of training students to edit their writing?
18Which method best encourages collaborative writing among students?
19What does the teacher do during controlled writing to correct students' work?
20Writing teaching methods are:
21What is NOT a basic requirement for a writing assignment?
22What is peer review in the context of teaching writing?
23Which pre-writing tool helps students write well-developed paragraphs by using skeleton formats containing information about main ideas and transition words that guide organization and supportive details?
24What does R.A.C.E.S stand for when referring to the writing strategy?
25Which resource mix best supports early writing and mark making?
26Give students tangible models to use to generate ideas or structure their writing
27Sentence frames can be used as writing prompts to:
28What is the recommended number of body paragraphs in a timed rhetorical analysis essay?
29How many points is the Writing Task usually worth on the TCAP rubric?
30What is one advantage of testing writing with short tasks?
31What kind of support is provided for the final writing task in Lesson H?
32What is the best name for this pedagogical strategy?The teacher is asking the children to provide suggestions for a text the class is creating together, and is guiding the structuring of the text. The teacher scribes the children's suggestions onto the whiteboard.
33The earliest stage of children's writing development is called .....
34One way to assist beginning and intermediate writers is to provide them with temporary frameworks that allow them to concentrate on a single part of the writing process at a time. These are called:
35What is one way children's writing improves as they grow?
36What is the main goal of Harmer's 'Model-Based Writing' approach?
37What is the primary benefit of Collaborative Writing?
38What does "Discipline-based Inquiry" involve?
39Which of the following does not belong to the product approach to teaching writing:
40A young child is writing strings of letters that do not spell any actual words. This child is in which stage of writing development?
41Mark which of these can be a good way to warm up your class before a writing activity:
42What should educators consider when teaching writing?
43Why might a teacher encourage students to use a structured template for their thesis statements, especially for timed exams?
44It is an interactive experience where students contribute to the writing, either in a small or whole group setting in which the teacher acts as the scribe and records the students' ideas
45A strategy under Brainstorming:jotting down lists of phrases or single words the writer will return to later.
46Which of the following is a picture-based writing strategy?
47What are graphic organizers used for in writing?
48Arrange the lessons so that writing comes earlier in the process to ensure that students think rigorously in writing.