Grammar | Parts of a Story | Good Writing | Create a Sentence | Editing |
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Person, place, or thing
What is a noun?
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The climax
What is the part of a story where emotions and excitement are highest? This is the big event in a story.
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Every sentence should start with a capital letter and end with punctuation.
What should every sentence start and end with?
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The dog ran to his bowl and ate his food.
Say a complete sentence with 2 verbs in it.
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The "t" in "the" needs to be capitalized.
What needs to be fixed in this sentence?
"the school was only ten blocks from my house." |
An action word
What is a verb?
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The rising action
What is the part of a story where minor characters are introduced and events are leading up to the climax?
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Indention
What is the space at the beginning of every new paragraph called?
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Billy and his brother went to the park.
Say a complete sentence with 2 nouns in it.
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We need to add a subject or noun.
What needs to be fixed in this sentence?
"Ran away from the building because it was on fire." |
A description word
What is an adjective?
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The falling action
What is the part of a story where there are small events following the climax? This part of the story begins to resolve some problems throughout the story.
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Dialogue is the words being said between characters.
Good writers include dialogue in their stories. What is dialogue?
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I went to the ice cream shop and wanted to get chocolate. There was no chocolate left so I got vanilla.
This is a run-on sentence. Make it into two separate sentences.
"I went to the ice cream shop and wanted to get chocolate but there was no chocolate left so I got vanilla." |
We need to add a predicate or action.
What needs to be fixed in this sentence?
"Carlos, Joe, Sally, and Hannah." |
Who or what the sentence is about
What is the subject of a sentence?
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The exposition
What is the part of a story where there is an opening sentence, the main character is introduced, and there is a clear description of the setting?
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Sequencing is writing events in the same order that they happen.
Good writers use correct sequencing in their stories. What is sequencing?
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The black and white zebra looked very strong as he ran through the grass.
Say a sentence that has 3 adjectives describing a zebra.
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Quotation marks
What are the "marks" called that should always be around a quote, dialogue, or speech in a story?
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Tells something about the subject/ The rest of the sentence following the subject
What is the predicate of a sentence?
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The resolution
What is the part of a story where the whole story is wrapping up? This part of a story does not introduce new characters. It ends with a conclusion sentence.
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It means to use good description words, dialogue, and emotions to help the reader see the same thing in their head that the writer sees.
Good writers "paint a picture" for their readers. This does not mean there are pictures in the book. What does "painting a picture for your reader" mean?
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Bob saw a scared cat in the tree so he rescued the cat by getting him down.
These 3 sentences can be combined into one. Say a possibility for doing so.
"Bob saw a cat in a tree. The cat looked scared. Bob rescued the cat by getting him down." |
The story switches between past and present. A writer has to stick with one for their whole story.
What is wrong with this short story?
"I was walking on the sidewalk. I stop to look at the sky. There were birds flying as the clouds float by. I thought about how nice of a day it is." |