Writing Jeopardy!

Genres

100

Gives information and explains a topic with the goal of teaching or educating the reader. 

Informative

200

Informative writing is also called this.  (Think of the the Time for Kids articles from your Wonders reader.)

Expository

300

Tells a story with the purpose to entertain the reader. 

Narrative 

400

Tries to convince the reader that their viewpoint is correct by explaining reasons. 

Persuasive

500

This genre may contain dialogue (people talking)

Narrative

Punctuation

100

This punctuation mark can join two complete sentences with a conjunction (and, or, but) or separate items in a list. 

Comma

200

Punctuation that helps the reader express feelings, importance, or emphasis at the end of a sentence. 

Exclamation mark

300

This punctuation hugs words in the middle of a sentence and can add to or clarify the rest of a sentence. 

Parentheses 

400

Used to show the reader that the text is speech or dialogue. 

Quotation marks

500

This punctuation mark shows that a question is being asked.

Question Mark

Writing traits

100

These make your writing clear and easy to follow (and is also is a word for a gathering of super fans).  

Conventions

200

You have to come up with these, or think of these before you pick up a pencil or sit down in front of a keyboard. 

Ideas

300

The sequence or order of ideas in a writing.

Organization

400

This trait of good writing is all about how it sounds out loud. Without it, writing sounds robotic. 

Fluency

500

When your true self shines through in your writing and a reader can easily tell it's yours, you have this trait. 

Voice

Famous authors

100

This gentleman brought us the little orange man who speaks for the trees (and a mean green man who steals one).  

Dr. Seuss 

200

Hogwarts and Harry Potter are names this author are well known for.

J.K. Rowling

300

This whimsical writer gave us a golden ticket to a chocolate factory, let us meet a friendly giant and witches.

Roald Dahl 

400

This author wrote about a wimpy child and his family.

Jeff Kinney

500

Brian crashes a plane into the Canadian wilderness and is stranded in the forest to take care of himself.

Gary Paulson

Roll the dice

100

This appears when light hits water droplets just right; it's close friends with Roy G. Biv. 

A rainbow

200

An animal with a backbone.

Vertebrate

300

do do doot doot doot de doo, do do doot doot doot  de do doo

Baby Shark

400

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is this number of syllables. 

14

500

This dance move, made famous by Michael Jackson, is when your feet smoothly glide backward while you appear to make forward walking motions. 

The moonwalk