Famous Authors
This famous poet is known for silly children's poems. Some of his most know collections include "Where the Sidewalk Ends" and "Falling Up."
Who is Shel Sliverstein?
This type of sentence may be an inquiry or request, but always ends with a squiggly punctuation mark.
What is a question?
This movie series started as a book series about a middle school student named Greg Heffley and his silly encounters, complete with small illustrations.
What is Diary of a Wimpy Kid?
The type of writing that attempts to convince a reader of your opinion.
What is an argument?
The very beginning of an essay that grabs the reader's attention.
What is the hook?
This author is best known for her dystopian triology, "The Giver," "Gathering Blue," and "The Messenger," along with the historical fiction novel, "Number the Stars."
Who is Lois Lowry
A punctuation mark that is used to show both possessive nouns and combine contractions.
What is an apostrophe?
This movie originally started as a novel titled "Through the Looking Glass," featuring the magical and strange dream-like encounters of a girl named Alice.
What is Alice in Wonderland?
A type of writing that tells a personal or fictional story.
What is a narrative?
Address, greeting, body, closing and signature all make up this kind of writing.
What is a friendly letter?
This author used an alternative version of her first name when publishing her novel about two gangs of boys that included characters like Ponyboy and Johnny.
Who is S.E. Hinton?
Good writing includes these kinds of words or phrases to help signal the next step or the writing flow from one idea to the next.
What is transitions?
A series that includes mythical creatures, wizards, and battles of good and evil with characters like Gandolf, hobbits and Legolas.
What is Lord of the Rings?
The purpose of this writing is to share clear information about a topic with the readers.
What is informative?
A type of poetry that uses the actual shape of the poem to help convey the message or mood.
What is a concrete poem?
This historical fiction author penned the WWII young adult novels "Projekt 1065," "Prisoner B-3087" and "Refugee."
Who is Alan Gratz?
The name for the spacing format at the start of each new paragraph in a piece of writing.
What is an indentation?
This book written by Dr. Suess tries to share the importance of valuing the environment, especially trees.
What is "The Lorax?"
A piece of writing that is mass published in print form to provide facts and information to a large audience of readers and written by a journalist.
What is a news article?
Examples of this part of speech include quickly, around, and happily.
What is an adverb?
Who is J.K. Rowling?
The final paragraph in a piece of writing.
What is a conclusion?
This series written by C.S. Louis begins with a magical wardrobe and time-traveling children to a land ruled by a great lion named Aslan.
What is "The Chronicles of Narnia?"
What is a letter?
The alternative or made-up name used by an author when publishing a piece of writing.
What is a pen name or pseudonym?