The writing Process
Main Idea & Key Details
Making Inferences
Subject/ Verb Agreement
Part of Speech
100
What stage of the writing process do you brainstorm ideas & begin creating your outline?
What is Prewriting?
100
What is the point or overall message of a text?
What is Main Idea?
100
Flamingos start with white feathers. If they eat a lot of shrimp their feathers turn pink. How does this happen?
Their feathers randomly change colors.
They control their feathers with their minds.
Something in the shrimp turns their feathers pink.
What is Answer 3?
100
Choose the verb form that agrees with the subject:
All the students (marks, mark) their own papers.
What is Mark?
100
Name the part of speech:
What is the word drew?
What is Verb?
200
During what stage of the writing process do you begin creating a rough copy of your writing?
What is Drafting and Rough Draft?
200
What supports the Main Idea in a text?
What is Key Details?
200
The player kicked the ball with his foot. The ball flew far away. The player began crying and holding his ankle. What happened?
The player hurt his ankle.
The player was tired and wanted to go home.
The player hurt his knee.
What is Answer 1?
200
Choose the verb that agrees with the subject in the following sentence:
Then Chase and True (march or marches) up to Skye’s desk.
What is March?
200
What part of speech is the word Arkansas?
What is Proper Noun?
300
During what stage of the writing process do you improve your work (Add detail, dialogue, descriptive words)?
What is Revising?
300
What is the main idea of the following text:
Kittens need special care. You have to feed kittens twice a day. They have a lot of energy. You will have to watch them closely.
What is Kittens need special care?
300
A bug was flying in the forest. It hit a spider web and got stuck. The spider crept towards the bug. What happened next?
The spider helped the bug.
The spider danced with the bug.
The spider ate the bug.
What is Answer 3?
300
Name the correct verb tense:
Yesterday, Joseph (experiment) with some new rhymes.
What is Experimented?
300
What part of speech is the word quickly?
What is adverb?
400
During what stage of the writing process do you proofread your work (check for punctuation, capitalization)?
What is Editing?
400
What is a key detail from the following text:
Kittens need special care. You have to feed kittens twice a day. They have a lot of energy. You will have to watch them closely.
You have to feed kittens twice a day, or they have a lot of energy, or you will have to watch them closely.
400
The children were playing pin the tail on the donkey. One of the boys was very short. His hand only reached the donkey’s feet. What do you think happened next?
The little boy pinned the tail in the right spot.
The little boy pinned the tail to the feet.
The little boy grew.
What is Answer 2?
400
Name the correct tense of the verb:
Tomorrow, he (visit) Trey’s house after school.
What is will Visit?
400
What part of speech is the word sisters?
What is Plural Noun?
500
During what stage of the writing process do you create your clean final copy?
What is Final Draft?
500
Mrs. Cunningham, Davidson, and Wallace decide if you answer this correctly for 500 points. (they must give the main idea & 3 details)
500
Sally’s dad brought home a silly hat. He put it on and asked Sally how he looked. Sally laughed. Why did Sally laugh?
Her dad looked funny in the hat.
She thought of a funny joke.
She was being tickled.
What is Answer 1?
500
Name the correct verb tense:
Kaden hopes that Kellan (help) on their assignment.
What is will help?
500
Change the part of speech to a noun: teach
What is Teacher?