WRITING PHASE I INITIAL

Sample Tasks Examples

1. Convey messages

  • Fill out an invitation with formatted personal information
  • Complete a simple cloze of a Happy Birthday message

2. Record information

  • Copy
    • Own personal information from a student card
    • The month, the year and the days from a calendar

3. Present information

  • Fill out
    • Simple, teacher-made forms
    • Simple, teacher-made journal cloze with word pool
  • Label the items in a diagram of
    A house
    A classroom
    A calendar
    Types of food
    Body parts
    Family Members

4. Express written ideas and feelings

  • Copy or write one word or phrasal answers to questions about a dialogue or survey.
  • Copy answers in complete sentences in response to a story or dialogue-related comprehension questions
  • Using a word pool, write captions under photographs or pictures to describe feelings, actions or people
  • Fill in sentence stems related to pictures of physical feelings, such as
    She is cold
    She is not hot.
  • Copy words from food flyers indicating which foods the learner likes.
  • Fill in the missing initial consonant for sight words on teacher-made worksheet
    __appy ___ad ___ick
  • Label feelings in a collage depicting emotions





















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