Questions to Guide a School
Self-Assessment of On-Demand Instruction
Kentucky Department of Education
Administrative Resources: On-Demand
Writing Instruction
Dr. Charles Whitaker
- What
instruction is given to assist students in reading the prompts critically in order to make the
better choice between the tow prompts offered?
- What
instruction is given for analyzing the task to identify the purpose,
audience, and form?
- Instruction
must be provided to help students to internalize the criteria for
effective writing.
- What
prewriting strategies are addressed in your instruction to help students
focus on purpose, audience, and form?
- What
instructional strategies are provided for students regarding idea
development and support?
- What
instructional strategies are provided for students regarding
organization?
- What
strategies are provided to help students with self-revision?
- What
strategies are taught to help students with self-editing?
- What
methods do you use to lead students from guided instruction to independent
use?
- How
are models used during student instruction?
- What
instruction is given on how narrating an event in a letter, article,
editorial, or speech to advance a purpose is different than writing a
personal narrative?
- What
instruction is given to help students understand how the use of persuasion
in an article may differ from the use of persuasion in an editorial?
- What
instruction is given to help students in responding to a text, a graphic,
or chart?
- What
feedback is provided for students upon completion of an on-demand writing?
- What
opportunities do your students have to rewrite to proficiency?