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 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 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.
Expository
Helps the reader express feelings, importance, or emphasis at the end of a sentence.
Exclamation mark
You have to have them before you pick up a pencil or sit down in front of a keyboard.
Ideas
J.K. Rowling
Tells a story with the purpose to entertain the reader.
Narrative
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
The sequence or order of ideas.
Organization
This whimsical writer gave us a golden ticket to meet a friendly giant, witches, and a small yet powerful reader.
Roald Dahl
These five emotions starred in Pixar's Inside Out.
Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, Disgust
Tries to convince the reader that their viewpoint is correct by explaining reasons.
Persuasive
Used to show the reader that the text is speech.
Quotation marks
This trait of good writing is all about how it sounds out loud. Without it, writing sounds robotic.
Fluency
Where are the wild things? He knows!
Maurice Sendak
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is this number of syllables.
14
This genre may contain dialogue.
Narrative
The three dots used to create suspense or a dramatic pause.
Ellipsis
When your true self shines through in your writing and a reader can easily tell it's yours, you have this trait.
Voice
In this writer's most popular book, Ms. Freeze's cat couldn't drive the bus.
Mo Willems
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