Walton School District
DeFuniak Springs Florida
Literacy Handbook
Grades 6-12
Writing Terminology
Welcome
In
this ever-changing world, literacy has become everyone’s business.
In education, the responsibility of ensuring that all students are
indeed literate extends across all academic areas, from language arts to
mathematics to career/technical studies.
Undoubtedly, all individuals need good reading skills for enhancing
not only vocabulary and sentence development but also idea formation.
However, literacy does not simply stop at reading, but instead
continues into writing as well. To
ensure achievement in both the educational and business worlds, a person
must be able to write coherently to effectively communicate with other
individuals. In addition, writing also serves as a vital tool for success
because it broadens one’s perspective, improving the ability to process
and deliver information. Thus,
literacy itself serves as a key, possessing the power to unlock
individual gateways toward self-discovery through personal reflection and
the sharing of hopes, dreams, and ideas.
Realizing how fundamentally literacy affects learning and thus life, we share a common goal of graduating competent readers and writers into the awaiting world of work and other post-secondary pursuits. In addition to typical classroom and school assessments, one measure of such success is the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT), which examines students’ abilities to read, process, and communicate a variety of forms of information. To this end, the 6th-12th Grade Literacy Handbook will become a valuable tool for students, parents, and teachers alike for strengthening reading and writing skills and, in turn, improving overall success.
Click on the links to the left to visit the chapters of handbook. We think you will find it very user friendly.
The Writing Terminology Page will give you a glossary of commonly used writing terms and refresh those key words used to create good writing, as well the six traits of good writing
The Scoring Section gives you a writing scoring guide, visual presentation guide, and an oral presentation guide.
Formatting Documentation gives middle and high school students a great resource for MLA and APA guidelines.
The Help Index is a quickie guide to the 8 parts of speech, common sentence errors, confusing pairs and hundreds of synonyms for the word said.
The Work It Out has handy templates to do revisions, and plan to think as well as note taking tips. You can even review your listening skills and how to be the best at public speaking.
Tech Literacy will review the Technology Foundation Standards as well as the National Educational Technology Standards ( NETS).
The
Lesson Plans page has just a couple of ideas for teachers to
integrate this hand book into the curriculum that they currently teach. We
will be adding to this as the ideas keep flowing in. If you
have something to share, please do.
If you have questions, or comments please e-mail one of the collaborators
on the Sources page.
DISCLAIMER...... The ensuing web site is an attempt to disseminate the information that is available in the Literacy Handbook to the parents, students, teachers and staff of Walton County School System. If there are mistakes, they are as a result of amateurs putting together the web site. Please use the book as the guide and let us know how we can make this better. Thanks!
