Parts of Speech
Concrete is touchable, but abstract is not, this part of speech names a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind," are the immortal words of this pioneering astronaut as he set the first human foot on the Moon.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
Not a point on a graph, this is how an author organizes a story.
What is the plot?
I hope you learned your lessons! Usually at the end of the story, this helps children understand the point of a fable.
What is the moral?
This pre-writing tool helps you to keep your thoughts in the right place.
What is the graphic organizer?
Lights, camera, action! This part of speech tells us what someone or something is doing.
What is a verb?
A hero to four-legged friends everywhere, this was one of the first living animals to be sent into space.
Who is Laika the Soviet Space Dog?
Who is Ham the Chimpanzee?
Don't call it a where or when phrase! This term describes the time and place a story takes place in.
What is the setting?
Gods and goddesses often teach real-world, though often exaggerated, heroes in these stories that explain how or why something happens.
What are myths and legends?
The first step of the Writing Process, you have to do this to understand what you're going to be writing about.
What is read the prompt?
Easy 4, Hard 3, and 6 Senses are all categories of this describing word.
What is an adjective?
Not a Cincinnati baseball team, "the Reds" described the adversaries to the United States during the Space Race.
Who are the Soviets?
Who are the Russians?
This is how an author shows what a person in the story is like.
What is characterization?
Bibbidi-bobbodi-boo! These stories often involve good versus evil, fantastical magic, and a problem to solve.
What are fairy tales?
Bring your thunder! This step in the writing process is an important one to get all your ideas onto the page.
What is brainstorm?
Found in newspapers and scientific journals, these small adjectives show up before nouns, and tell us how many or if it's a specific noun.
What is an article?
Named for the Greek god of light and music, this space program landed 12 men on the Moon between 1969 and 1972.
What is Apollo?
No fighting! This term describes the struggles or problems the characters face in a story.
What is conflict?
Paul Bunyan, Davey Crockett, John Henry, these larger than life figures are examples of characters in what type of folk tale?
What is a tall tale?
After penning your rough draft, this crucial step helps you catch your errors.
What is proofreading?
What is revision?
In literature we call it setting, but in writing, this word tells us where or when the events are happening.
What is a preposition?
Not in an aquarium or a pool, this specialized tank allows astronauts in training to experience microgravity.
What is the Neutral Buoyancy Lab?
You might catch it if it's recurring, this term tells us what the big idea of a story is.
What is the theme?
This is a sixteen-letter word that means animals or inanimate objects talk and act like people do.
What is anthropomorphism?
You might feel dizzy after this step of the writing process where you use the prompt to create your topic sentence.
What is Turn The Question Around (TTQA)?