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Improving Student Writing Skills Word Choice The best word choice is the most specific word choice. For example, instead of . saying that someone “went” to the store, we could say they “ran.” Actually, instead of just saying “ran,” we could say they “sprinted,” “jogged,” or “loped.” Good word choice tells exactly how something happened or what something is. Word choice helps the reader paint a picture in his/her mind. For example, if a stove is “hot,” is it “scalding,” “sizzling,” “blistering,” or just “warm”? Directions: Revise the following passage for word choice. Change words to make them more specific. When John woke up this morning, he felt good. He heard chickadees squawking and opened his curtains to the light of the big sun. The weather was nice and made him feel like something good. He got up and went downstairs, where his big brother was already eating cereal. “Good morning, Brother,” John’s big brother said. “Good morning, Brother,” John said. John put two things of sugar on his cereal and smiled, thinking about what was going to be a good day. ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ 102 http://www.books-foru.blogspot.com
Teaching Using the Traits of Good Writing Sentence Fluency Good sentence fluency makes writing that is easy to read aloud. You don’t have to stop and start and you don’t get jumbled up, even the first time you try to read something. Also, not all sentences sound the same—in a piece with good sentence fluency, the writer uses many different lengths and avoids always starting a . sentence with the same word. Sometimes weird sentence fluency can come from words being out of place. Directions: Revise the following passage for sentence fluency by changing some of the first words and sentence lengths. I love school lunch. It’s always totally yummy. I like hamburgers best. I don’t like mustard. I don’t use mustard. I always finish first. I even eat the coleslaw. ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ http://www.books-foru.blogspot.com 103
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Table of Contents Introduction.. .
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Introduction As a writing teacher,
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Vocabulary Review Vocabulary Review
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Chapter One Your Physical Classroom
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Your Physical Classroom How Is Your
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Your Physical Classroom Basic Seati
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Your Physical Classroom independent
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Chapter Two Frameworks for Classroo
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Frameworks for Classroom Time Also,
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Chapter Three The Writing Process I
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The Writing Process Prewriting Duri
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The Writing Process Bubbling Exampl
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