The first step in the writing process in which the writer generates ideas and makes plans.
What is prewriting?
100
A type of writing that explains, informs, describes, or shares information.
What is expository?
100
The correct homophone for the sentence:
Let's go to (there, their, they're) house.
What is t-h-e-i-r?
100
A group of words that can stand alone as a sentence.
What is an independent clause?
200
A word that describes a person, place, or thing.
What is an adjective?
200
The second step in the writing process in which the author writes the story or essay for the first time.
What is draft?
200
A sentence that is in the introduction of an expository essay, and it tells the reader what the essay is about.
What is topic sentence?
200
The correct homophone for the sentence:
(Your/You're) so tired today!
What is y-o-u-'-r-e?
200
Two independent clauses joined together by a comma and a conjunction.
What is a compound sentence?
300
An action, such as walk, talk, or punch.
What is a verb?
300
The third step in the writing process in which the author adds, rearranges, or deletes information to make the writing more interesting and easier to understand.
What is revise?
300
Information that helps support the reasons the author is using to defend their position in an expository essay.
What are examples or details?
300
The correct homophone for the sentence:
(Its/It's) going to be a great day!
What is i-t-'-s?
300
It's what you always do at the beginning of a sentence.
What is capitalize the first word?
400
A word that describes a verb, an adjective, or another word of the same type.
What is an adverb?
400
The fourth step in the writing process in which the author corrects any mistakes in spelling, grammar, punctuation, and capitalization.
What is edit?
400
This type of sentence is found in the concluding paragraph, and it restates the prompt and central idea of the paper.
What is the concluding statement?
400
The correct homophone for the sentence:
Please, go over (there/their/they're) now.
What is t-h-e-r-e?
400
The part of the a sentence that tells the action of the person or thing the sentence is talking about.
What is the predicate?
500
A word that joins words, phrases, or two independent clauses.
What is a conjunction?
500
The fifth and final step in the writing process in which the author is ready to share his or her story with an audience.
What is publish?
500
The three parts of an expository essay.
What are the beginning, middle, and end?
500
The correct homophone for the following sentence:
They have some, and we want some (to, too, two).