Proofreading
Another name for a sentence that is a command.
What is imperative?
Name the 3 types of "connections" you can make when reading.
What are: text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world?
Name the man who is acknowledged for finding gold first?
Who is James W. Marshall?
In what kind of writing should you not share your opinions?
What is a research report?
When an adjective is 3 or more syllables.
The past tense of fight. Spell it too!
What is fought?
Give an example of a higher order thinking question for any chapter of Sylvia and Aki.
In the building of what form of transportation did Chinese immigrants experience discrimination?
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
Name a good way to begin a Personal Narrative.
What is a question? What is a quote? What is a setting description?
CUPS stands for this. We use it at this stage of the writing process.
Capitalization
Usage
Punctuation
Spelling
(Editing)
The contraction won't is a shorter version of these 2 words.
What is will not?
Give an example of Author's Craft.
Check answers.
What is the coastal region?
It is good to give these after your reasons when you write an opinion essay.
What are examples?
ARMS stands for this. We do it during this time in the writing process.
Add, remove, move, or substitute
Revising
The name for this kind of adjective: shorter
What is a comparative adjective?
What is discrimination? What is hope? What is pride? What is justice?
This is when you copy straight from a history book or other source instead of paraphrasing.
What is plagiarism?
These are certain words that help "cue" your reader or keep them on track.
The author of Al Capone Does my Shirts.
Who is Gennifer Choldenko?
The possessive form of "the rattle of the snake"
What is the snake's rattle?
Name what you should try to do before looking a word up in the dictionary.
What is "use context clues" to figure out what it means in your reading?
Paraphrase this sentence.
In 1882 the Chinese Exclusion Act discriminated against Chinese workers and stopped them from coming to the United States
Check Answers.
Name one type of ending that is effective when writing a personal narrative.
What is a cliffhanger? What is a circular ending? What is a moral ending?
Name one character feeling and one character trait.
What is happy? What is kind?