Across
- 4. Short written response to an open-ended question or prompt
- 6. Students reread their own writing, share writing in groups, make changes in writing to enhance or improve content.
- 12. Selection is read orally to students. Should be done K-8 everyday.
- 14. Students read silently by themselves at their own pace. Reading selections must be at the pace of the students.
Down
- 1. reading/writing for information
- 2. A pre-writing activity that allows a writer to explore many ideas as soon as they occur to them
- 3. The ability to apply your knowledge of letter-sound relationships, including knowledge of letter patterns, to correctly pronounce written words
- 5. Examining your text carefully to find and correct typographical errors and mistakes in grammar, style, and spelling
- 7. Students read or reread a selection with a classmate. This enhances social skills and provides a tutorial situation for students.
- 8. Students share their writing in an appropriate form and with an appropriate audience
- 9. Reading/writing for enjoyment
- 10. Commonly used words that young children are encouraged to memorize as a whole by sight, so that they can automatically recognize these words in print without having to use any strategies to decode
- 11. An approach to spelling instruction that moves away from a focus on memorization. It also teaches students how to use this word knowledge strategically to support their spelling attempts during writing activities and to help them decode unfamiliar words while reading
- 13. Students proofread their compositions, proofread classmates compositions, identify and correct mechanical errors, meet with teacher for final edit