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1. Convey formatted
and unformatted interactional messages |
- Invitations _ Follow oral instructions to write
on a teacher-made invitation
- Write a one line thank you message on
teacher-made worksheets or greeting cards
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2. Record formatted
and unformatted information |
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Copy information from teacher-made |
- Appointment cards
- Signs of business hours
- Flyers
- Work schedules
- Copy words onto an appropriate list, such as
Food or Clothing
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3. Present formatted
or unformatted information |
- Fill out simple teacher-made
- School registration forms
- Application forms
- Fill in a simple cloze of a phone conversation
to the
- School
- Doctor's office
- Workplace
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4. Express written
ideas and feelings |
- Write lists of foods, sports or seasons one
likes or dislikes
- Fill in cloze exercises, surveys or sentence
stems
- Unscramble and write questions and answers to
develop word order skills and show comprehension
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| Understand the basic mechanics of writing |
| Can often |
- Copy from the board, model or I.D. card
- Understand letter, word or sentence placement on
a page, line or space provided
- Form upper and lower case letters with some
degree of accuracy
- Demonstrate proper spacing between letters and
words
- Form numerals and monetary symbols
- Copy or write words and simple sentences using
correct word order
- Understand the importance of accuracy
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Begin to understand and use basic spelling
conventions |
- Use phonics to write initial and medial
consonants in words
- Copy or write a bank of sight words
- Fill in the missing final consonant sound in
word groups of 3-letter words such as ba__, ba___, ba___.
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Use |
- Capital letters for names
- Basic punctuation such as period and question
mark
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Begin to write for meaning at the word and discourse
level |
- Simple forms
- Diagrams, maps
- Cloze exercises
- Greeting cards
- Invitations
- Question/answer exercises
- Dictation
- Lists related to likes, dislikes and
descriptions of feelings
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Context is relevant, familiar and repetitive in structure
Forms are teacher-made and boxed-in to look authentic
Word pools are used to provide correct spelling
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Answers to questions are |
- One word or phrase from a word pool in random
order
- Scrambled sentences that need to be
re-constructed by looking back at the text and then written out by learner
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Teacher-made worksheets should have |
- A lot of white space
- Adequate space for the learner to write
- Numbered sentences
- Large, clear easy-to-read print
- Visuals
- A limited variety of formats and print
- Up to 2-3 content words per line in forms
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Visuals are |
- Large, clear and relevant to learner
- In context
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Forms should have |
- 2 - 3 content words per line
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