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wanted to delete before finalizing this piece of writing?” “In which areas of language usage are you strong, and in which areas are you weak?”
Interconnected Skills
4.2 identify a variety of skills they have in listening, speaking, reading, viewing, and representing, and explain how these skills help them write more effectively (e.g., identify the benefits of reading their work aloud to an audience as a revising strategy; describe the specific ways in which individual texts they have read have influenced their writing)
Teacher prompt: “How does your participation in a writing group help you to see the strengths and weaknesses of your own written work?”
Portfolio
4.3 select a variety of types of writing that they think most clearly reflect their growth and competence as writers, and explain the reasons for their choice (e.g., select a finished piece of writing that they feel best reflects their abilities as a writer, and explain why they chose it; select a finished piece of work that taught them some- thing valuable about writing that they will con- tinue to find useful in their future academic work)
Teacher prompts: “What pieces do you think would best represent your writing talent to your postsecondary teachers?” “What pieces do you think might be worthy of revision for publication in the future?”