Genres
Punctuation
Writing traits
Famous authors
Roll the dice
100

Gives information and explains a topic with the goal of teaching or educating the reader. 

Informative

100

This punctuation mark can join two complete sentences with a conjunction or separate items in a list. 

Comma

100

These make your writing clear and easy to follow (and is also is a word for a gathering of super fans).  

Conventions

100

This gentleman brought us the little orange man who speaks for the trees (and a green man who steals one).  

Dr. Seuss 

100

This appears when light hits water droplets just right; it's close friends with Roy G. Biv. 

A rainbow

200

Informative writing is also called this. 

Expository

200

Helps the reader express feelings, importance, or emphasis at the end of a sentence. 

Exclamation mark

200

You have to have them before you pick up a pencil or sit down in front of a keyboard. 

Ideas

200
She's a Gryffindor. 

J.K. Rowling

200
When an animal loses a body part, like a tail, but it can grow back. 
Regeneration 
300

Tells a story with the purpose to entertain the reader. 

Narrative 

300

This punctuation hugs a whisper to the reader in the middle of a sentence and can add to or clarify the rest of a sentence. 

Parentheses 

300

The sequence or order of ideas.

Organization

300

This whimsical writer gave us a golden ticket to meet a friendly giant, witches, and a small yet powerful reader. 

Roald Dahl 

300

These five emotions starred in Pixar's Inside Out

Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, Disgust 

400

Tries to convince the reader that their viewpoint is correct by explaining reasons. 

Persuasive

400

Used to show the reader that the text is speech. 

Quotation marks

400

This trait of good writing is all about how it sounds out loud. Without it, writing sounds robotic. 

Fluency

400

Where are the wild things? He knows! 

Maurice Sendak 

400

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is this number of syllables. 

14

500

This genre may contain dialogue. 

Narrative

500

The three dots used to create suspense or a dramatic pause. 

Ellipsis

500

When your true self shines through in your writing and a reader can easily tell it's yours, you have this trait. 

Voice

500

In this writer's most popular book, Pigeon couldn't drive the bus. 

Mo Willems 

500

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 

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