Six Traits- WORD CHOICE

Each word needs to _______________ in order for the audience to understand what they are reading.

• rhyme

• make sense

• have a definition

• flow

We want our words to ____________ in the minds of our audience.

• stick

• take a photograph

• paint a picture

• dance

Clutter is when your writing goes ______ and ______ without necessarily making sense

• on, on

• off, off

• up, up

• down, down

What is it called when you write way more than you need to?

• "A+" writing

• Clammer

• Clutter

• Perfect

What are the words called that help the audience see, feel, hear, taste, and smell what we are trying to say?

• Sensory words

• Five favorite words

• Adjectives

• Lovely words

Which word in the following sentence vividly describes? I scurried to get a dish rag after I spilled a bowl of cereal on the floor.

• get

• cereal

• dish

• scurried

If you read your words out loud and don’t like the way they sound, what can you do?

• Start over

• Revise

• Give up

• Grade it

A word that means the same as another word.

• Synonym

• Antonym

• Noun

• Interjection

A synonym for thin is?

• Tall

• Chubby

• Slender

• Overweight

A word that means the opposite of another word?

• Antonym

• Synonym

• Preposition

• Verb