Word Choice
We can use better words than these, for words like fun or nice, to make our writing more interesting to the reader.
What is a synonym?
When your writing shows happiness, anger, sadness or excitement, it has this.
What are emotions or feelings?
The focus of what your writing is about.
What is the main idea?
Stories have this at the start.
What is a beginning?
Every sentence must start with this.
What is a capital letter?
These are keywords that tell us what someone or something is doing to describe an action.
What is a Verb?
You do this when you make your reader feel a strong emotion.
What is expression?
You do this when you are thinking of many ideas before writing.
What is brainstorming?
These help your story or writing flow together like first, then, after, and finally.
What are transition words?
This is located at the very end of a sentence.
What is punctuation?
A writing technique that uses action words, descriptive details, and sensory details, rather than stating the obvious.
What is show, don't tell?
A writer's unique way of writing a story through thoughts, feelings, and events.
What is perspective?
This keeps your writing from going off on a tangent or down a rabbit hole.
What is staying on topic?
This is an attention grabber at the beginning of your writing.
What is a hook?
If I don't do this, my writing can not be easily read and may not be readable.
What is proper spacing?
A descriptive word that could refer to a color, size, number, shape, or the 5 senses.
What is an adjective?
This makes your writing unique and sound like you.
What is voice?
When you do this, it helps create a picture that your reader can see.
What is elaborate and give examples?
A writer tells a story in a specific order.
What is a sequence of events?
Thems dogs is barkings, is an example of what?
What is improper grammar?
The girl laughs loudly. Name the part of speech for the word loudly.
What is an adverb?
A mystery story might use this type of voice?
What is a curious, nosy, meddling, or questioning voice?
If my topic is too broad, I may need to do this to stay on topic in my writing.
What is narrow my topic?
These are ideas clumped together in writing.
What is a paragraph?
At the beginning of a new paragraph, I do this.
What is indent?