This student was working by herself and completely focused on writing on the chart. She was copying words and sentences from a book which the teacher had recently read.

T–Can you tell me what are you writing?

S–My teacher read the story to the class and I liked it so I’m writing some words and some of the story. I want to remember the story and I like to write.

T–Can you tell me what some of the words say?

S–No….I don’t want to…I want to write!

—at which point she went back to her writing task!