Genres
Gives information and explains a topic with the goal of teaching or educating the reader.
Informative
This punctuation mark can join two complete sentences with a conjunction (and, or, but) or separate items in a list.
Comma
These make your writing clear and easy to follow (and is also is a word for a gathering of super fans).
Conventions
This gentleman brought us the little orange man who speaks for the trees (and a mean green man who steals one).
Dr. Seuss
This appears when light hits water droplets just right; it's close friends with Roy G. Biv.
A rainbow
Informative writing is also called this. (Think of the the Time for Kids articles from your Wonders reader.)
Expository
Punctuation that helps the reader express feelings, importance, or emphasis at the end of a sentence.
Exclamation mark
You have to come up with these, or think of these before you pick up a pencil or sit down in front of a keyboard.
Ideas
Hogwarts and Harry Potter are names this author are well known for.
J.K. Rowling
An animal with a backbone.
Vertebrate
Tells a story with the purpose to entertain the reader.
Narrative
This punctuation hugs words in the middle of a sentence and can add to or clarify the rest of a sentence.
Parentheses
The sequence or order of ideas in a writing.
Organization
This whimsical writer gave us a golden ticket to a chocolate factory, let us meet a friendly giant and witches.
Roald Dahl
do do doot doot doot de doo, do do doot doot doot de do doo
Baby Shark
Tries to convince the reader that their viewpoint is correct by explaining reasons.
Persuasive
Used to show the reader that the text is speech or dialogue.
Quotation marks
This trait of good writing is all about how it sounds out loud. Without it, writing sounds robotic.
Fluency
Jeff Kinney
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is this number of syllables.
14
This genre may contain dialogue (people talking)
Narrative
This punctuation mark shows that a question is being asked.
When your true self shines through in your writing and a reader can easily tell it's yours, you have this trait.
Voice
Gary Paulson
This dance move, made famous by Michael Jackson, is when your feet smoothly glide backward while you appear to make forward walking motions.
The moonwalk