Punctuation
The type of punctuation used to make a statement.
What is a period?
The number of paragraphs that an essay is usually made up of.
What is 5?
The six traits of writing
What is word choice, voice, sentence fluency, organization, and convention?
The number of steps in the writing process.
What is 5?
The word used when you have (to, too, two) much of something.
What is too?
The type of punctuation to express excitement.
What is an exclamation point
The first step in a Text Dependent Analysis prompt.
What is read the prompt and underline the sentence that tells you what to write about?
Using the word hurdled instead of jumped is an example of this trait
What is word choice?
The 5 steps of the writing process.
What are prewriting, drafting, revising, editing and publishing?
The word used when you need to put the book right (their, there, they're)
What is there?
The type of punctuation used to ask a question
What is a question mark?
The sentence used in the umbrella part of our graphic organizer.
What is the topic?
Using dialogue is one way to show this writing trait.
What is Voice?
The process when a student jots down his or her ideas and begins to try to organized them.
What is prewriting?
The word used when you go in a specific direction (right, write)
What is right?
The type of punctuation that goes before a FANBOY word to create compound sentence.
What is a comma?
The names of the four things that go in the opening of a TDA opening paragraph.
What is the umbrella (topic), box (explanation), box(explanation) , box (explanation)?
Making sure that your sentences are in logical order when you write is a good way to show what writing trait.
What is Organization?
The process in which a student is not worried about spelling or punctuation and just writes.
What is drafting?
The word I use if I want to speak with you (farther, further)
What is further?
The type of punctuation used before and after the sentence when writing dialogue.
What are quotation marks?
In the passage it states that.....
According to the text the author says...
In the story it shows....
Using multiple sentence lengths and varieties is a good form of this writing trait.
What is sentence fluency?
The step in the writing process when a writer rereads and fixes the flow of his or her writing.
What is revising?
The word used when something is not included
except or accept.
What is except?