Reading Review and Writing Expectations

Reading Review and Writing Expectations

Multiple Choice

Where do Malala and her family travel in Chapter 2?

• Birmingham, England

• Mingora

• Shangla, mountain village

• Peshawar

Multiple Choice

True or False: Malala's mother could not read.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

What kind of future do most women have in Pakistan?

• go to college and have a career

• get married early and run a home

• live with friends in the city

Multiple Choice

Where does Malala encounter kids out of school?

• city streets

• the river

• fields

• rubbish heap

Open Ended

Why did Malala send a letter down the river?

Multiple Select

Which of the following did Malala's family do to help people in need?

• leave food outside

• give space for living in home

• allow children to attend the school

• lend money

Writing Expectations

Formal writing is dressed up writing, following rules of punctuation and grammar

Revising and Editing

• Revising is when we add, remove, change writing to make a piece of writing better and more developed

• Editing is when we check for errors in punctuation and grammar

Multiple Choice

If I add a period at the end of my sentence I am ...

• editing

• revising

Multiple Choice

If explain my idea more fully by adding another sentence I am...

• editing

• revising

Editing Checklist

• Capitalize the first letter of every sentence.

• Use a period at the end of each sentence.

• Capitalize any names (proper nouns) used.

• Make sure each sentence has a verb or action (would draw, create, make, do...)

• Use spelling check in Google documents

• Have an English expert read it and give feedback

Open Ended

What is one task on the editing checklist? What do you do to edit?