The Writing Process
What is the first step of the writing process?
Prewriting or Brainstorming
The time AND place a story takes place.
What is setting?
This type of figurative language uses words like "like" or "as" to make comparisons.
What is a similie?
These words describe a verbs or describe adjectives.
What is an adverb?
Example: I walked VERY fast.
"Very" is an adverb that describes more about the adjective "fast".
Find the mistake:
Me and Noah are going to play Fortnite this summer.
What is "Noah and I"
What is the main idea of a story?
The topic plus the key detail
What step in the writing process is where you check your writing for proper Capitalization, Usage, Punctuation, and Spelling.
Editing
The people in a story
What is a character?
What type of figurative language uses a word imitates, or copies, to create the sound it describes?
What is an onomatopoeia?
A word used to connect phrases and clauses. Example: FANBOYS
What is a conjunction?
Find the mistake:
The students groaned when their teacher told them to "open their books to page 58."
The quotation marks aren't needed
What is the difference between first person and third person?
First person has a narrator who is in the story. Third person has a narrator who is not in the story.
The first attempt at writing your essay is called what?
The Rough Draft
A point of view in which the narrator uses the pronouns "he", "she", "they", but not "I" and "we"
What is third person point of view?
This type of figurative language is extremely exaggerated and not meant to be taken seriously.
What is hyperbole?
What are description words?
What is an adjective?
Find the mistake:
I am a fourth grade student at Albany elementary school.
What is Elementary School needs to be capitalized.
Name a feature that a play would have, but a poem would not have.
Stage directions, cast list, narrator, character lines
What is the step in the writing process in which you make changes like Adding, Removing, Moving, and Substituting?
Revising
The "good guy" or hero in a story. An example would be Batman
What is a protagonist?
This type of figurative language uses sayings that do not mean the same as their literal words. For example: "raining cats and dogs" or "a chip on your shoulder".
What is an idiom?
The naming part of a sentence. Tells who or what the sentence is about.
What is the subject?
Find the mistake:
Mr Armstrong is our school's principal.
What is Mr needs a period
What is the word for a group of verses in a poem?
stanza
What writing process step is where we make lists, diagrams, or webs or organize our thoughts and choose a topic?
Prewriting or Brainstorming
The problem in a story.
What is the conflict?
This type of figurative language is used to make a comparison of one thing to another without the use of like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Words having the same pronunciation but different meanings and spellings
What is a homophone?
Find the mistake:
My teacher seems really nervous about testing, but I'm excited because I know the fourth-grade bash is right around the corner!
What is no mistake.
What is the complete predicate of this sentence:
Mr. Morton went to the grocery store.
The predicate is: "went to the grocery store."