The sixth-grade students in Kathy Smyth’s class gathered many facts about the Vikings, but they had difficulty preparing an organized presentation. In this situation, it would be most helpful for the teacher to present a minilesson on __________.  

Punctuation marks signal grammatical boundaries and ________________.

Sixth-grade students in Nancy Loving’s class did not use context clues when they encountered unfamiliar words. The most effective way to teach these students about context clues would be to __________.

Examine the following sentence: Turn off your cell phone when the meeting begins. It is an example of a(n) __________________.

To help students take responsibility for their learing, effective teachers distribute _____________.

Writing is a developmental process. Teachers should expect students to become responsible for identifying and correcting grammatical errors__________.

Nonfiction books are organized in __________.

  The novel Sarah, Plain and Tall, is told through the eyes of Anna, the oldest child; Anna is the narrator. This is an example of __________.  

Dr. Davis knows that I am going to  ____.

Nicole, a sixth-grade soccer player, wanted to express her feelings about her team’s loss of a championship game. Because Nicole felt rhyming or formula poetry would not be appropriate, the teacher wisely encouraged her to __________.