Exam 9: Writingreading Connections

Develop an essay that presents plans for the strategic use of writing structures, such as story frames and literacy scaffolds, to stimulate writing in the primary grades. Be sure to include both ideas for their use with specific written genres,for gradually phasing out the writing structures, as well as the implications of both for English learners.

A father calls you to complains that all of the errors in the first draft of a writing assignment, which his daughter had brought home from school, had not been corrected. What would you say that might help this parent to understand the draft stage of the writing process and each of its successive stages?