Writing: Part 1: Pre-Test

Directions: Please take the pre-test. The answers can be found in the answer key.

Multiple Choice
1. The Six Trait Plus 1 Writing Format includes:
a. Ideas, Organization, Voice, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, Conventions, and Presentation.
b. Content, Plot, Point of View, Setting, Characterization, Theme, and Structure.
c. Ideas, Point of View, Voice, Characterization, Sentence Fluency, Conventions, and Plot.
d. Ideas, Organization, Conventions, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, Content, and Presentation.

2. Organizational structure can be based on
a. comparison-contrast,
b. deductive logic,
c. chronological history of an event,
d. development of a central theme,
e. All of the above

3. Graphic organizers
a. Only work with expository (non-fiction) text.
b. Work best as a pre-reading activity.
c. Help students organize their thoughts in pre-writing.
d. Are limited to two different graphic designs.

4. To put your own voice into your writing
a. Be yourself
b. Share your emotions
c. Share your opinions
d. All of the above

5. It is important when choosing words to
a. Tell instead of show
b. Use words correctly
c. Use passive voice
d. Repeat powerful words

6. According to Donald Graves, when teaching conventions in writing:
a. Use trade books to investigate how authors use conventions.
b. Limit your resources to textbooks.
c. Develop a notebook of transparencies to teach skills.
d. Both a and c

7. Writing assessment rubrics
a. Can be presented in several different formats
b. Should tell the writer where he/she stands in relation to classmates
c. Describe mediocre writing only
d. None of the above

8. Writing Workshop is
a. An old technique that is no longer useful.
b. A way to organize to teach writing
c. Not appropriate past age 8
d. All of the above.

9. If several sentences sound the same when read aloud
a. It is OK for fluency
b. Change the beginnings of all of them
c. Change some of the sentence structures
d. Make them more understandable.

True and False:
1. Voice is the writer coming through the words, the sense that a real person is speaking to us and cares about the message.

2. Fluency in writing is the number of words per minute.

3. Transparencies are a good teaching tool to show that images can provoke a variety of responses.

4. One aspect of voice is looking at what you want to say from different angles and choosing the one with which you are most comfortable.

5. Avoid vague, boring, and overused words.

6. Reading a passage aloud is an excellent way to determine sentence fluency in writing.

7. Children should never be allowed to help you teach a mini-lesson.

8. Rubrics are only useful for assessing writing performance.

9. If a sentence sounds like a person would talk when read aloud, it contains good sentence fluency.


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