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The Writing Process

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  • When revising, ask yourself if you say ......... about your topic.
    Enough
  • The ........... ........... brings the description to an end.
    Closing sentence
  • When you are prewriting, you are gathering ......?
    Details
  • A passenger traveling through the storm by train was very happy to be in a comfortable (berth, birth).
    Berth
  • (Beside, Besides) the strong north winds, last year's big storm brought a great deal of snow.
    Besides
  • Make sure your writing has a ........., ........., and ........
    Beginning, middle, and ending
  • What is the second step in the writing process?
    Writing
  • What are the basic three Writing-to-Learn activities?
    Freewriting, Clustering, Listing
  • When you are editing, you check for ..........., ............., .............., and ............ errors.
    Punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and grammar
  • A small tree (beside, besides) the library was bent over by the weight of the snow.
    Beside
  • Rena knew that the rumbling (base, bass) sound she heard meant a snowplow was coming down the street.
    Bass
  • When you are prewriting, you are selecting a .....?
    Topic
  • An ambulance with a woman about to give (berth, birth) was able to get through to the hospital.
    Birth
  • In the body of your (descriptive) paragraph, you add the ........... .........
    Specific details
  • When revising, make as many ......... necessary to improve your first draft.
    Changes
  • There are three (3) main types of personal details. Name them.
    Sensory, reflective, and memory
  • Name the 5 W's.
    Who, what, where, when, why
  • Another name for cluster is called?
    A web
  • What is the first step in the writing process?
    Prewriting
  • What is the last step in the writing process?
    Publishing
  • When you place the subject you are studying in the center of the page and circle it, that is called?
    Clustering
  • A travel journal helps you reflect on school trips, vacations, and other journeys. Name two (2) of the four (4) other types of journals.
    Personal, diary, specialized, reader-response
  • In a descriptive paragraph, you use details to paint a ......... picture.
    Vivid
  • My dad, who has a plow on his truck, (billed, build) his customers for plowing their driveways.
    Billed
  • Which graphic organizer is used to collect details to compare and contrast?
    Venn diagram
  • What is the fourth step in the writing process?
    Editing
  • When you write quickly about a subject you are studying, it is called?
    Freewriting
  • When you are revising, you are .......... your writing.
    Improving
  • Name at least four (4) of the six (6) traits of writing.
    Ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions
  • When you are publishing your writing, you are ........... it.
    Sharing
  • When you are writing, you are developing your first ......?
    Draft
  • In only an hour, the snow completely covered the flagpole's stone (base, bass).
    Base
  • Incredibly, the storm didn't bother the people who were ice fishing for fresh (base, bass).
    Bass
  • A (descriptive) paragraph starts with a ........ .........
    Topic sentence
  • When revising, ask yourself if you sound ........ in your topic.
    Interested
  • When you are editing, you are checking for .............
    Conventions
  • What is the third step in the writing process?
    Revising
  • When revising, ask yourself if your nouns are ........... and your verbs ........ .
    Specific and strong
  • Julian claims that even on a cold, windy day, his (bare, bear) hands stay very warm.
    Bare
  • During that storm, Jake wore a hat that looked like it was made out of (bare, bear) fur.
    Bear
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