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 than in writing.}If the goal of a lesson was teaching students different types of end punctuation, which activity would be most relevant? {Ans: NOT converting sentence fragments into complete sentences and NOT rearranging separate words into complete sentences that make sense}What is the most important reason for teaching students how to form letters, spell, and punctuate? {Ans: These skills enable better quality and longer compositions.}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}Which is a practical and valid way to monitor student progress in written composition? {Ans: by counting and graphing the correct word sequences (CWS) in a writing probe}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.}What would be the best way to begin teaching students how to write a