Informative
Persuasive/
Argumentative
Narrative
Punctuation/
Capitalization
Word Choice/ Misc
100
Informative writing requires this type of organizer for pre-writing planning.
What is a four/five square?
100
Argumentative or persuasive writing requires this type of organizer for pre-writing planning.
What is a four / five square?
100
Narrative writing requires this type of organizer for pre-writing planning.
What is a CSP123?
100
These three things need to be corrected with this passage: What's your favorite holiday Memorial Day my favorite holiday are tomorrow.
What is there needs to be a question mark after "holiday" in the first sentence and a comma after "day" and "holiday" in the second sentence, and the "are" needs to be changed to "is"?
100
This is word needs to be changed in the following sentence: As the water evaporates from the lake's surface, these minerals remain in the lake and gives the water its high salt content.
What is "gives" need to be changed to "give"?
200
1. In informative writing, your introductory paragraph should include these. 2. These are two examples of ideas to hook the reader.
1. What is a hook, an introduction to the topics of the body paragraphs and a transition to the first paragraph? 2. What is a statistic or interesting fact, a quote, a personal story, dialogue, a poem?
200
In argumentative writing, the topic sentence is also called this.
What is your claim or thesis?
200
When starting to write the beginning of your story, you should include these.
What is an introduction to the setting and/or characters and a hint as to what the story is about?
200
These three things need to be corrected with this passage: Jane goodall was born on april 3 1934.
What is "Goodall" and "April" need to be capitalized, and there needs to be a comma after the "3" in the date?
200
These two things need to be corrected with the following passage: Their are many genres of books in Mrs. Herring's library. She loves to talk about the books he's read.
What is "their" should be "there" and "he's" should be "she's"?
300
In informative writing, each body paragraph should include these.
What is a topic sentence, body sentences that support to the topic and a concluding sentence (which hopefully transitions to the next paragraph)?
300
In argumentative writing, the body paragraphs should include these.
What is a reason or claim (topic), body sentences that provide examples and evidence that support your claim, and a concluding sentence (hopefully that transitions to the next paragraph)?
300
Think about the story planner that we use for process writing. These are three things that the story planner includes that are not part of the CSP123 which you should considered when doing test taking writing.
What is title, rising action, climax, falling action, conflict, theme?
300
These three things need to be corrected with this passage: As a young girl Jane loved to read about African animals and she especially enjoyed Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories.
What is there needs to be a comma after the introductory phrase, "As a young girl," and after "animals", and "Just So Stories" should be underlined.
300
These three words are wrong in the following passage and should be changed to these three words: The too landing sites were choosed because they might provide clues about passed water activity on Mars.
What is "too" should be changed "two", "choosed", should be changed to "choosen" and "passed" should be changed to "past"?
400
These are three examples of words that an informative writer can use to transition from one idea to another, or from one paragraph to another.
What is "first", "second", "third", "another", "next", "last", "in addition", "similarly", " finally", "most important", "also", "and", etc?
400
These are three examples of words that a persuasive writer should use to convince his audience of his claim.
What is "there is no doubt", "it seems to me that", "as you can see", "obviously", "unquestionably", "undoubtedly", "without a doubt", "furthermore", "equally important", "similarly", etc?
400
These are three ideas to consider for strong endings to your narrative writing.
What is ending with how you began or the title, with a theme or moral, with a strong emotion, with irony, etc?
400
This is what is needed for this dialogue: she said today is the first day of school.
What is there needs to be a comma after "said", quotation marks before "today" and after the period, and "she" and "today" should be capitalized.
400
These two words should be changed to the following passage with these two words: Previous missions to Mars has gathered evidence showing the presents of water on Mars in the past.
What is "has" should be changed to "have" and "presents" should be changed to "presence".
500
A concluding paragraph in informative writing should always include the following.
What is a transition from the body paragraphs, a reminder of the topics mentioned in the body paragraphs and a conclusion that leaves the reader with a strong thought or feeling?
500
An argumentative writer should restate this in each paragraph of their essay.
What is his or her claim or thesis?
500
1. This is what it means to stick with the same point of view. 2. When we write a story we should step into the main character's shoes and, " _____the ______" as it happened.
1. What is tell the story from the same consistent perspective and in the same verb tense? (Not switching from first and second person's perspective) 2. What is "dream the dream" as it happened?
500
These three things need to be corrected with this passage: The golden gate bridge has served as both a pedestrian and a vehicular crossing for more than a half-century. In addition to accomplishing this goal the bridge has become the symbol of San Francisco California.
What is "Golden Gate Bridge" needs to be capitalized, there needs to be a comma after the introductory phrase, "In addition to accomplishing this goal," and there needs to be a comma between "San Francisco" and "California"?
500
The following three words in the passage need apostrophes. Milas first journal entries are written in odd, simple language. Its clear that shes just beginning to learn English.
What is "Mila's", "It's" and "she's"?
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