If a class is at grade level in reading achievement, what can the teacher expect of the class's writing achievement? {Ans: Significantly more students will be proficient in reading that in writing.}Which of the topic sentences below would be most appropriate for teaching students to write a descriptive, informational report about African elephants? {Ans: African elephants are large, intelligent mammals who live on the savanna.}If the goal of a lesson was teaching students different types of end punctuation, which activity would be most relevant? {Ans: distinguishing among the four basic sentence types}What would be the best way to begin teaching students how to write a sentence? {Ans: Explain that a complete sentence has a subject (the naming part) and a predicate (the action or doing/being part).}What is the main reason why writing is learned slowly and with effort over a long time? {Ans: Writing depends on many different motor, language, memory, and cognitive abilities.}Which technique would be least effective for helping students through the reviewing and revising phase of the writing process? {Ans: typing the student's composition so he or she can read it more easily`}What is likely to be the most helpful support