Writers Workshop 1
What is it called when you fix your spelling, punctuation, and capitalization mistakes in Writers Workshop?
Editing
What was it called where you wrote your ideas, thoughts, and notes down in Writers Workshop? (I asked you to bring it with you to every writing class.)
Writers Workshop Journal
A person, place, or thing.
Noun
What type of end mark (punctuation) do you use for a statement?
A period.
A possessive noun shows who or what owns or has something. What punctuation mark do use with your noun to show this?
an Apostrophe
Ex.Pam's cat
Ex.lions' den
What is the unit of writing called when you write a true story about a small moment that happened to you?
Personal Narrative
When someone is talking in your story, it is called?
Dialogue
The name for a describing word is?
An Adjective
A _______ is an action word in a sentence.
A verb
A _________ can take the place the place of one or more of the nouns in a sentence. (she, he, they, it)
pronouns
What is the unit of writing called when you write about a book or story (__________ Essay)?
Literary Essay
Revising
This end mark (punctuation) is used after a question.
Question mark
A complete sentence is made up of two parts the ______ and the ___________.
Subject and predicate
A ___________ sentence is two or more complete sentences that run together and need punctuation.
(If your teacher reads these they might faint!)
A run-on sentence
What is the main idea or big idea called in an Essay?
(_________ statement)
a thesis statement
In this unit of Writers Workshop, you wrote your own fiction story based on a classic tale.
Fairy Tales (Once Upon a Time Unit)
A sentence that tells you to do something and ends with a period is called a __________. ( Ex. Close the door. or Please take out the trash.)
a command
When a sentence is not complete it is called a _______.
A fragment
A, An, and The are what part of speech?
They are called Articles which are adjectives.
This unit of writing is where you try to persuade or convince somebody that your opinion is important or matters?
Persuasive Essay
In this unit of writing, it is non-fiction where you are teaching someone about a topic that you are an expert about.
Informational Text
A noun that names a specific person, place, or thing (and is upper case) is called a ______ ______.
Ex. George Washington
Ex. Florida
Ex. Empire State Building
A proper noun
This part of speech helps the verb in the sentence tell when, where, and how. (sometimes it ends with an-ly)
an adverb
The tense of a verb tells when an action happens. There are three tenses for a verb which are:
Ex. look
Ex. looked
Ex. will look
present, past, and future