Deck 7: The Tools of Writing

Question 1

In the ______ stage of spelling, students' scribbles or letters lack any relationship between sounds and symbols.

Answer 1

pre-phonetic

Question 2

In the _________ stage of spelling, students are aware of how word meanings and word order affect spelling.

Answer 2

morphemic/syntactic

Question 3

During the ________ stage of spelling, students are aware of the sound-symbol relationships although they still often omit or misuse vowels.

Answer 3

phonetic

Question 4

What are the four consistent qualities in legible handwriting?

Question 5

Word families are also called _________________________.

Question 6

Onset is the initial consonant in a one-syllable word, while ______________ is the remaining vowels and consonants.

Question 7

Punctuation and capitalization rules are best taught during the prewriting stage of the writing process.

Question 8

The text authors contend that students' punctuation skills improve through wide reading and writing.

Question 9

Drawing is one way in which young children begin to write.

Question 10

The goal of handwriting instruction is legible handwriting.

Question 11

Structural-descriptive grammar emphasizes traditional grammar.

Question 12

Young students who reverse letters (such as b and d) probably suffer from dyslexia.

Question 13

The best way for children to improve their spelling is through memorization.

Question 14

All of the following are readiness skills related to handwriting EXCEPT

A) Small muscle development
B) Long attention spans
C) Eye-hand coordination
D) Letter and word perception

Question 15

What happens during the orthographic stage of spelling?

A) A student's handwriting ranges from scribbles to actual letters.
B) A student's awareness of spelling errors grows enormously.
C) Students become aware that English spelling is influenced by word meanings.
D) Students first become aware of sound-symbol relationships.

Question 16

In the primary grades, spelling is best learned through all of the following EXCEPT

A) Auditory means
B) Tactile means
C) Extensive drills
D) Visual means

Question 17

What does legible handwriting include?

A) Consistent size
B) Consistent slant
C) Consistent spacing
D) All of the above
E) None of the above

Question 18

Which of the following directions would be used in a traditional grammar lesson?

A) Analyze the writer's intended meaning in the sentence.
B) Combine this sentence with another similar sentence.
C) Change the following sentence into a question: The cat is black.
D) Circle all of the nouns in the following sentence: The cat is black.

Question 19

In a transformational-generative grammar lesson, where is the emphasis?

A) On diagramming the nouns, verbs, and adjectives
B) On finding different sentence patterns within a book
C) On improving the underlying meaning of the sentence
D) On underlining the subject and predicate of the sentence

Question 20

Distinction in handwriting refers to which of the following?

A) Certain letters look alike
B) Certain words have similar spellings
C) a and b
D) neither a or b

Question 21

All of the following sets of words are word families EXCEPT

A) Sit, fit, pit
B) Pan, fan, man
C) Hill, mail, bill
D) Hop, stop, top

Question 22

All of the following are examples of rime EXCEPT

A) reign, rain
B) still, ill
C) at, mat
D) jump, pump

Question 23

Discuss some of the different ways in which students acquire the tools of writing.

Question 24

Why is it important for students to master the tools of writing?

Question 25

Explain the language experience approach to teaching both reading and writing.

Question 26

What are the four characteristics of legible handwriting? Explain how you will help your students develop legible handwriting.

Question 27

Discuss the VAK technique to teaching handwriting; list the advantages of this technique.

Question 28

Discuss the developmental stages of spelling; give examples of typical spelling found at each stage.

Question 29

Discuss two different approaches to teaching grammar. What are the strengths and weaknesses of both approaches?

Question 30

What are the pros and cons of using computers and word-processing programs to teach writing?