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REVISING & EDITING
Is it EXPOSITORY or NARRATIVE?
STRONG SENTENCES
PARTS OF SPEECH
PUNCTUATION
100
REVISING
What is it called when you make a piece of writing better by adding similes, metaphors, analogies, imagery, and stronger sentences?
100
EXPOSITORY categories of writing
What is INFORMATION, DIRECTIONS, PERSUADE, and OPINIONS
100
ADJECTIVES
What is adding this descriptive part of speech to sentences in order to add describing details?
100
ADVERB
What is a part of speech that answers HOW, WHERE, WHY, or WHEN, and describes a verb?
100
ENDING PUNCTUATION MARKS
What needs to be at the end of ALL sentences?
200
A simile to make the sentence more visual
What has been added to this sentence in order to make it more visual? The boy ran across the playground as fast as a cheetah.
200
The TOPIC SENTENCE
What is the first sentence in EXPOSITORY WRITING
200
ADVERBS
What is the part of speech you add to your sentence in order to answer WHICH ONE? WHAT KIND? HOW MANY?
200
ADJECTIVE
What is a part of speech that describes a noun, and answers WHICH ONE, WHAT KIND, or HOW MANY?
200
QUOTATION MARKS
What are the marks that go around dialogue to show that someone is talking?
300
A snapshot moment
What is it when a writer takes a moment, and writes about it in great detail, making the reader feel as though they are right there in the moment?
300
PERSONAL NARRATIVE
What is it when you write about an even or experience that has happened to you
300
Capital letters and correct punctuation
What do strong sentences have at the beginning and end of them?
300
PREPOSITION or PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE
What is the part of speech that makes a sentence stronger, answering WHERE or WHEN?
300
CAPITAL LETTERS
How do all sentences end?
400
Idiom
What has been added to this sentence in order to add imagery? Grandpa was getting up there in age, and we teased him that he was over the hill!
400
PERSONAL NARRATIVE
What is when the events are written in chronological order, so that there is a beginning, middle, and end?
400
ADVERBS
What is the part of speech you add to a sentence in front of a verb, and it answers HOW, WHERE, WHEN, or WHY?
400
NOUN
What is the part of speech that answers WHO or WHAT?
400
Commas in a series
How do we separate a list of three or more things in a sentence?
500
Truism
What has been added to this piece of writing in order to make it more personal, with a lesson to the event? I couldn't believe that I might be going to see the concert with my friend. I was afraid that it wasn't going to work out. However, at the last minute, even though I had been counting on it, we weren't able to go. I guess you shouldn't count your chickens before they hatch.
500
EXPOSITORY
What is this prompt? Going out to eat at a restaurant is something most people look forward to. If you were going to take a special friend to your favorite place to eat, which restaurant would you choose and why?
500
PREPOSITIONS
What is the part of speech you add to a sentence that tells WHERE or WHAT, making it stronger?
500
SUBJECT and PREDICATE
What are the two parts all sentences must have?
500
PROPER NOUNS
What kind of words might be capitalized in the middle of sentences?