Writing Traits
Grammar
Genres
Vocabulary
Ms. Nelson Prefers
100
This trait is more than paragraphs, it is a whole system of helping the reader know where things are.
What is organization
100
a person, place, or thing
What is a noun?
100
A story that you write about yourself is not always a biography, sometimes it is this.
What is a memoir?
100
This is a person or thing that helps.
What is a facilitator?
100
The size font Ms. Nelson prefers.
What is 12pt font?
200
This trait is sometimes called the +1 trait
What is presentation
200
You capitalize this kind of noun.
What is a proper noun?
200
This kind of writing has stanzas instead of paragraphs.
What is a poem?
200
You knowledge is increasing as time goes by; therefore, knowledge is this.
What is accumulative?
200
Ms. Nelson prefers to have this a the top of all her typed papers.
What is a heading.
300
Without this trait, you really have nothing worthwhile.
What is ideas
300
These parts of speech are not just actions, they are states of being.
What is a verb?
300
This is simply another word for story.
What is a narrative?
300
When the students gather at the assembly, we do this.
What is to congregate?
300
Ms. Nelson prefers that you use this kind of spacing.
What is double-spacing?
400
In order to improve this trait, try alternating short and long sentences.
What is sentence fluency?
400
You can substitute a noun with one of these.
What is a pronoun?
400
In this kind on non-fiction writing, it is important to cite all facts that are not common knowledge.
What is research?
400
When you have different backgrounds, or different ideas, you may also have different ways of looking at things. It's a matter of this.
What is perspective?
400
Ms. Nelson would really like to get this kind of animal.
What is a goat?
500
For good sakes, don't start every sentence the same way, it is not a good way to demonstrate this writing trait.
What is sentence fluency?
500
Team, choir, class, and community are examples of this kind of noun.
What is a collective noun?
500
All writing that is not poetry is called this.
What is prose?
500
When you can understand how another feels or would feel, it is this.
What is empathy?
500
Ms. Nelson prefers it when you do this before she grades you.
What is grading yourself?
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