Writing
Samuel Adams
Ideas
- Choose a topic that interest you
- Make sure you include details, facts, and some times your feelings
organization
- topic sentences green, main ideas yellow, tell me more red or pink, and conclusion green
- have a clear bgginning, middle, and end
voice
- speak in an engaging way that leaves the reader wanting more
- show rather then tell
sentence fluency
- variety of sentence beginnings
- flows smoothly from one sentence to the other
conventions
- edit using COPS
- use evaluation sheet to revise
6 Traits of Writing- a photostory
writing process
prewriting
in prewriting you come up with all the titles you think of then pick one to write about
brain storming
brain stormy is when you come up with all the stuff your going to put in your story
rough draft
rough draft is your first draft that you make changes to for your final draft
evaluation
your pre revising
revision
in revision the writer changes anything they need to change
editing
editing to correct anything they missed in revising so they are ready for the final draft
publishing
now you are ready to publish, that is when you share for somebody to look at or just keep that i the last step in the writing process
write tools
core 4 topic sentences
this is when you come up with your topic sentence there are 4 simple statement, number sentence, question, and situation stance
t-table
you put together your paragraph without transitions
first it is your topic sentence
next your main idea
stop and tell me more comes next last
conclusion
color scheme
color scheme is your t-table with colors
topic sentence-green
main idea-yellow
stop tell me more-red/pink
conclusion-also green
conclusion
this is where you get to pick your ending sentence for your story and it's your last so your going to want to make it good
stop and tell me more
these are you little ideas about your main ideas