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