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Paragraph Writing
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writing-skills
Instructions:
Answer 35 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Any piece of writing that where the reader can easily move from one detail to the next and understand how they are connected.
Discuss
Logical
Summarize
Presentations
2. What the overall piece of writing is about.
Short Response Questions and Answers
Main Idea
Classify
Idea
3. Any piece of writing that attempt s to persuade or convince
Conventions
Effect
Persuasive
Summarize
4. How something interacts with others
Affect
Word choice
Describe
Organization
5. Arrange or order by similar characteristics or qualities
Mood
Organization
Classify
Short Response Questions and Answers
6. How the final product is used
Expository
Presentations
Argue
Define
7. How sentences flow smoothly from one to the next; use transitions; using different types of sentences: declarative - interrogative - exclamatory - imperative
Sentence fluency
Persuasive
Describe
Transitions
8. A piece of writing that describes the locations of the details
Effect
Compare and Contrast
Spatial
Define
9. Has a begging - middle - and end
Word choice
Narrative
Persuade
Voice
10. Give a detailed account or picture of a situation - event - pattern - or occurrence
Chronological (time)
Define
Affect
Describe
11. To tell a story
Spatial
Argue
Narrate
Persuade
12. To convince using both fact and opinion
Spatial
Evaluate
Persuade
Transitions
13. A piece of writing based on what happens first - second - third - etc.
Spatial
Organization
Compare and Contrast
Chronological (time)
14. Making sure that there are no errors in spelling - grammar - or punctuation
Conventions
Mood
Describe
Define
15. Challenge or debate an issue or idea with purpose of persuading
Clincher/ Conclusion Sentence
Distinguish
Discuss
Argue
16. Make clear the differences between two or more concepts or things
Distinguish
Word choice
Classify
Sentence fluency
17. Any word or phrase (group of words) used to move from one idea to the next - one sentence to the next - or one paragraph to the next.
Transitions
Persuade
Evaluate
Describe
18. An attention grabbing sentence at the beginning of a paragraph used to get the reader's attention
Summarize
Word choice
Effect
Hook
19. Detail words that help the reader to clearly understand: nouns - verbs - adjectives - adverbs - etc.
Word choice
Sensory Detail
Classify
Narrate
20. Assess the limitations; make judgments
Narrate
Distinguish
Evaluate
Transitions
21. The result of something
Presentations
Effect
Define
Expository
22. Offer a considered and balanced review that includes all arguments - factors - hypotheses - opinions - and/or conclusions which is supported by appropriate evidence.
Hook
Transitions
Discuss
Expository
23. Written in paragraph form; restates the questions; answers the questions with specific details; has a final thought
Main Idea
Short Response Questions and Answers
Organization
Transitions
24. To retell the important details in the your own words
Summarize
Organization
Hook
Classify
25. Give a detailed account including reasons or causes
Spatial
Compare and Contrast
Clincher/ Conclusion Sentence
Explain
26. Show how something is similar - and how it is different
Short Response Questions and Answers
Effect
Voice
Compare and Contrast
27. Any piece of writing used to explain something.
Compare and Contrast
Describe
Clincher/ Conclusion Sentence
Expository
28. The last sentence in the paragraph that leaves the reader with one final thought.
Clincher/ Conclusion Sentence
Summarize
Argue
Persuade
29. The feeling of a piece of writing
Mood
Narrate
Argue
Presentations
30. How the writing will look - 1-paragraph - 5-pargraph essay - etc.
Affect
Word choice
Topic sentence
Organization
31. Any sentence that uses details to appeal to the reader's sense of taste - touch - sight - sound - or smell
Define
Sensory Detail
Presentations
Logical
32. The mood or tone of the writing created by the auhor
Voice
Word choice
Effect
Affect
33. Give the precise meaning of a word - phrase (group of words) - or concept
Chronological (time)
Summarize
Define
Idea
34. What the overall writing will be focused on
Idea
Voice
Chronological (time)
Logical
35. The sentence that states the main idea of the paragraph.
Topic sentence
Classify
Hook
Narrate
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