Author's Craft Part 1

What are the three reasons for writing?  

• Persuade, Inform, Entertain
• Personal, Interview, Entertain
• Persuade, Irony, Entertain
• Personal, Inform, Evolve

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CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RI.7.9

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

Mood is mainly about the feelings of the ....

• Author

• Audience

• Characters

• No one

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CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

This is the purpose that the author wrote a text.  (PIE).  

• Author's Purpose 
• Author's Craft 
• Theme 
• Point of view 

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CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RI.7.9

CCSS.RI.8.9

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Select all that apply. Which of the following are specified as Word Craft techniques?

• Imagery

• Details

• Word Choice

• Vivid Verbs

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

It is the author’s writing that makes his or her writing unique

• voice

• mood

• language

• none of the above

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CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

The emotions and feelings of the reader while reading a text

• voice

• language

• hyperbole

• mood

True or false: the language is the vocabulary, precise nouns, sensory words, and vivid verbs that make the text more interesting

• True

• false

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CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Which words let us know she is having a hard time?

"And then her voice goes weak again and she goes more limp than she was."

• voice, goes

• more, was

• weak, limp

• again, than

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Which sense does this sentence appeal to?

"It seemed she had a private breeze which swirled around cooling her."

• taste

• sight

• feel

• smell

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CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What is the tone of this text?

Finally, one of the girls pointed to the grass and giggled. "Meow!" A cat sat on the edge of the field and licked its paw. They did indeed have company. The girls ran over to the cat and pet his belly. They laughed and the cat sauntered contently back to the field.

• happy

• upset

• confused

• fearful

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CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4