1. If a class is at grade level in reading achievement, what can the teacher expect of the class's writing achievement? Answer: Significantly more students will beproficient in reading that in writing. 2. What is the main reason why writing is learned slowly and with effort overa long time? Answer: Writing depends on many different motor, language, memory, and cognitive abilities. 3. Which of the following teaching practices was not recommended in the review of research published by the institute for Education Sciences (2012)?- Answer: Emphasizes the individual's voice in a writers workshop model. 4. What isthemost important reason forteaching students how to form letters,spell, and punctuate? Answer: These skills enable better quality and longer compositions. 5. What would be the best way to begin teaching students how to write a sentence? Answer: Explain that a complete sentence has a subject (the naming part) anda predicate (the action or doing/being part). 6. If the goal of a lesson was teaching students different types of end punctuation, which activity would be most relevant? Answer: distinguishing among the fourbasic sentence types