Vocabulary
To give or supply for a common purpose
What is contribute?
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This is the first step where you brainstorm ideas and organize your thoughts before writing.
What is prewriting (or planning)?
we visited the lincoln memorial in washington, d.c. last summer." This sentence is missing three of these.
What are capital letters?
This tells you where and when a story takes place, like "a dark forest at midnight.
What is setting?
To enter and settle in a new country
What is immigrate?
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This is the "sloppy copy" where you focus on getting your ideas down without worrying about mistakes.
What is a draft?
"The dogs bowls were all empty." This is where the apostrophe should go to show that the bowls belong to multiple dogs.
What is after the S (dogs’)?
This is a person, animal, or creature that takes part in the action of a story.
What is a character?
A response to something
What is reaction?
During this step, you "see again" by adding, removing, or moving around sentences to make them better.
What is revising?
I love basketball it is my favorite sport." This error occurs when two sentences are joined without any punctuation.
What is a run-on sentence?
This is the sequence of events in a story, or "what happens" from the beginning to the end.
What is the plot?
To move to a new place
What is relocate?
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This is the final polish where you check for "CUPS": Capitalization, Usage, Punctuation, and Spelling.
What is editing?
Mr. Smith, my science teacher, loves to perform experiments." These two commas are used to set off this type of extra information.
What is an appositive (or a non-essential phrase)?
This is the "life lesson" or the main message the author wants you to learn from the story.
What is the theme?
The changing of attitudes, judgments, or emphases.
What is shifting?
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This is a map for your essay that helps you organize your body paragraphs before you start drafting.
What is an outline?
Stop right there!" This is the name for a sentence that gives a forceful command.
What is an exclamatory sentence? (Note: It is also imperative because it's a command!)
You make this when you use "clues from the text" + "what you already know" to figure out something the author didn't say out loud.
What is an inference?