What should you include in the first paragraph of your essay/ paper to grab the readers attention?
Hook
What is a noun?
The part of speech that names a person, place, thing, or idea
What word(s) should be capitalized? candy, mr. howard, tree
Mr. Howard
What is the adjective in this sentence? The frog is green.
green
Spell the day that comes before Thursday
Wednesday
How many sentences should be in a paragraph (at least) ?
5
What is an adjective?
a word that describes a noun (the name of a thing or a place)
What punctuation is used to separate words in a series?
Comma
jump, fishes, is, was, - examples of
Spell the word that means also and rhymes with flew. It can fit in the blank of the following sentence: His little brother wanted to go (blank).
Too
What is the first step in the writing process?
Prewriting/ Brainstorm
Think and decide what you are writing about
What is a verb?
A word used to describe an action
What word(s) should be capitalized? house, fish, nashville
Nashville
What is the adjective in this sentence? I saw a long, black limo yesterday.
Long, black
Spell the number word for the numeral 40.
Forty
5
Introduction
3 body paragraphs
Concluding paragraph
What is a pronoun?
A pronoun takes the place of a noun in a sentence.
Pronouns are short words like 'it', 'she', 'he', 'you', 'we', 'they', 'us' and 'them'
What word(s) should be capitalized? sponge bob, bath tub, girl
Sponge Bob
quietly, well, then, near
adverbs
Spell the word that rhymes with bear and is used to show possession. It can fit in the blank of the following sentence: We needed (blank) time to help us after the hurricane.
Their
You’ll find me in Mercury, Earth, Mars and Jupiter, but not in Venus or Neptune. What am I?
The letter R
What is an adverb?
A word that describes a verb (an action or a doing verb)
He ate his breakfast quickly. The word 'quickly' is an adverb as it tells us how he ate (the verb) his breakfast.
What punctuation is used at the end of a declarative sentence
.
in, at, to, under, around - examples of
Prepositions
Spell the word that means a place and rhymes with bear. It can fit in the blank of the following sentence: (blank) is where we will meet.
There