What Do You Want Me To Write? Prompt Analysis Warm-Ups

Match the following steps of POWER to their definition

• write

• W

• organize with a graphic orgnizer

• P

• pick apart the prompt

• R

• Edit

• O

• Revise

• E

There are four questions to ask yourself when picking apart a prompt. The first one is:

_______ am I writing?

There are four questions to ask yourself when picking apart a prompt. The second one is:

What is the _____ ?

There are four questions to ask yourself when picking apart a prompt. The third one is:

What is my ______ as a writer?

There are four questions to ask yourself when picking apart a prompt. The fourth one is:

What do I have to _____ ?

The prompt says words like: explain, evidence from sources and citations.

WHAT are you writing?

• Explanatory Essay

• Argumentative Essay

• Narrative Essay

• Brief Write

• Summary

The prompt says words like: plot, setting, characters, multi-paragraph.

WHAT are you writing?

• Explanatory Essay

• Argumentative Essay

• Narrative Essay

• Brief Write

• Summary

The prompt says words like: thesis/controlling idea, evidence from two sources, explain, multi-paragraph

WHAT are you writing?

• Explanatory Essay

• Argumentative Essay

• Narrative Essay

• Brief Write

• Summary

The prompt says words like: main ideas, condense text to its most important details, using your own words

WHAT are you writing?

• Explanatory Essay

• Argumentative Essay

• Narrative Essay

• Brief Write

• Summary

The prompt says words like: claim, evidence from two sources, convince

WHAT are you writing?

• Explanatory Essay

• Argumentative Essay

• Narrative Essay

• Brief Write

• Summary