Writing

Use this page to recap any teachings you need to check on during your writing.

See the subpage below for our STORY STARTERS:

TO HELP YOU WITH YOUR PUNCTUATION.... CHECK THESE HAVE BEEN ADDED:

1. THE WRITING PROCESS:

a. Planning

b. Drafting

c. Reworking - Red Pen

d. Proofreading (spelling, punctuation) - Red Pen

e. Conferencing - Green Pen with Mrs L

f. Publishing

Make sure you are clear on the sequencing of events so that they follow each other and your reader understands the transition from one event to another.

Make sure you use the correct tense - past, present, future. e.g. he swam, he is swimming, he will swim.

2. SIMILE:

Uses the words 'like' or 'as'

e.g. She had hands as big as a gorilla.

He ran like a panicing hyena.

3. METAPHOR:

Associating one thing with another without using 'like' or 'as'.

e.g. She had gorilla hands.

He was panicing hyena as he ran.

4. PERSONIFICATION:

Taking on human qualities. e.g. The bridge groaned under the weight of the heavy truck.

5. IDIOM:

Words that have a meaning not deductible from the real meanings of the words. e.g. over the moon, far out, sick as a dog, rub someone up the wrong way.

6. HOMONYMS - HOMOPHONE / HOMOGRAPHS:

Words that sound the same, can be spelt the same or differently. e.g. wound around and bleeding wound; sew seeds and sew clothes; shore of the ocean and sure you can have one.

7. SYNONYMS:

Similar meanings - bright, glow:

8. ANTONYMS:

Opposites - big, little.

9. PREFIX / SUFFIX:

Extra parts added to a root word at the beginning and at the end.

Prefix: disappoint

Suffix: appointed

DIFFERENT TYPES OF WRITING / READING:

There are FOUR main types of writing:

I: Expository - To explain or inform.

II: Descriptive - Describing and communicating events

III: Persuasive - To share your point of view / opinion

IV: Narrative - To tell a story.

We have discussed or written these already:

i: Articles: Real, factual, can be formal or informal.

ii: Fables: Tell a story that teaches a moral / lesson.

iii: Narratives: Stories about anything fiction or non fiction. Descriptive. Can be formal or informal.

iv: Journal: A collection of pieces of writing.

v: Diary: Daily accounts of what happens. Is dated.

vi: Newspaper: Articles about real life. Very formal. No descriptive language.

vii: Poetry: Lengths of sentences vary. Can rhyme. Usually has a set metre in each poem. Very few small words. Usually shaped.

a. Acrostic: Each line starts with the letter of the topic.

b. Alliterative: All words begin with the same letter.

c. Cinquain: Five line variations on a topic: Line 1 Topic; Line 2 Appearance; Line 3 Texture; Line 4 taste; Line 5 Opinion:

d: Haiku: Three line poem with a total of 17 chunks (syllables). Line 1 five chunks; Line 2 seven chunks; Line 3 five chunks:

e. Onomatopoeic: Sounds of words that describe the sounds of a place or an event.

viii: Cartoons / Comics: Makes use of speaking and uses pictures to show the sequencing of the story.

ix: Plays: Peoples names of parts that they are to read.

x: Fairy Tales: Start with Once upon a time... and finish and they all lived happily ever after.

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10: COMPLEX SENTENCES: A sentence that uses a conjunction. That is something like because, and, therefore, when... It is joining two simple sentences together.

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