Starter quiz
- What is an adjective?
- a being, doing or having word
- a word that describes a noun ✓
- the person, place or thing that is doin the action
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- What is a verb?
- a word that modifies another word
- a being, doing or having word ✓
- the person, place or thing that is doing the action
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- Which of the following is an adjective?
- confusingly
- anxious ✓
- running
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- The emotional response that a writer wants to give the reader is called the ______ of a text.
- personification
- mood ✓
- melody
- modifier
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- Writing that is designed to be written in a detail and interesting way so that the reader can visualise the scene is called ______ writing.
- academic
- persuasive
- descriptive ✓
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- Starting with the least effective, place these descriptive sentences in order of effectiveness.
- 1⇔The trees had green leaves, brown trunks, and brown branches.
- 2⇔The trees had luscious, verdant leaves and brown trunks.
- 3⇔The trees had luscious, verdant leaves that rustled in the wind.
Exit quiz
- What is a draft?
- a set of steps to complete a piece of writing
- the first version of a piece of writing ✓
- when you go through your work and correct any mistakes
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- What does revising mean?
- writing down the first version of a piece of writing
- looking back over a piece of work and making improvements ✓
- creating a plan to complete a piece of writing
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- What does editing mean?
- the process of making technical corrections ✓
- the process of reframing ideas
- the process of writing down your ideas for the first time
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- It's important to vary your sentence starters because they can influence the emphasis, cohesion, and ______ of a sentence.
- pace ✓
- pitch
- accuracy
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- Starting with the first, place the steps to approaching a description of an image in order.
- 1⇔Create a mind-map that highlights the details
- 2⇔Choose the details you want to focus on
- 3⇔Zoom in on the details and make notes
- 4⇔Decide on the mood
- 5⇔Use lingustic devices and vocabulary choices to influence the mood
- What does visualise mean?
- To form a picture of someone or something in your mind. ✓
- To bring or recall (a feeling, memory, or image) to the conscious mind.
- To be able to hear the sounds from the scene in your mind.
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Key learning points
- Drafting is where you write the first version of a piece of writing.
- Revising is where you look at or consider again a piece of writing in order to correct or improve it.
- Using a variety of sentence starters is important because it can influence the pace, emphasis or cohesion of a sentence.
- You can vary your sentence starters by using adjectives, verbs or adverbs.
Common misconception
That a piece of writing is completely finished once you have written it.
The first time you complete a piece of writing is it in its draft form. You want to go back and continually revise it.
Keywords
Draft - The first version of a piece of writing.
Mood - The emotional response that a writer wants to give the reader.
Revise - Where you look at or consider a piece of writing again to correct or improve it.
Visualise - To form a picture of someone or something in your mind.
Evoke - To bring or recall (a feeling, memory, or image) to the conscious mind.
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