Writing Skills

Before writing, how can you plan and organize your thoughts?

• make a bubble map

• check your phone

• collect newspaper articles

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CCSS.W.11-12.2

CCSS.W.11-12.2A

CCSS.W.11-12.5

The magic number in writing essays and paragraphs is ____.

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CCSS.W.11-12.2A

To show the reader that you're writing a new paragraph, you should __________.

• skip a line

• indent

• use quotation marks

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CCSS.W.11-12.2A

CCSS.W.11-12.4

Two examples of transition words are:

• First,

• Of

• Also,

• Never

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CCSS.W.11-12.2C

A good paragraph is built like a _________________.

• house

• hamburger

• UFO

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2

CCSS.W.11-12.2A

True or False:

The topic of an essay is called the therasis.

• true

• false

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CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

Which word is ALWAYS capitalized in writing?

• I

• A

• Of

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CCSS.L.11-12.2

The first sentence of a paragraph tells the topic of the paragraph, so it is called the ___________ sentence.

• introductory sentence

• beginning sentence

• topic sentence

How many paragraphs are there in a strong essay?

• 2

• 5

• 100

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.W.11-12.4

Which 2 provide facts?

• a novel

• a newspaper

• the Internet

• a letter