Teacher | Short Essay Assignments

Short Essay Questions

The 60 short essay questions listed in this section require a one to two sentence answer. They ask students to demonstrate a deeper understanding of the text. Students must describe what they've read, rather than just recall it.

Short Essay Question - Creative Teaching, 1

1. Why did Ashton-Warner believe that standardized reading texts were damaging to children?

2. How did Russian peasant students react to Leo Tolstoy's experimental school?

3. How did early exposure to white cultural norms adversely affect the Maori?

4. Why did Ashton-Warner describe children's minds as volcanoes and how did that affect her teaching?

5. Why were "key words" so essential to learning to read?

6. Into what two main categories did Ashton-Warner place many of her students' first words?