adventure different

Word Bank
help once spend/spent
Writing Mat 4th Grade
accident difficult history opposite strange Writing Types Remember to
actually disappear hundred ordinary surprise use different
State an opinion
Opinion
sentence types:
appear everyone inches people/person take/took Group together reasons
for your opinion Simple
believe experience island probably think/thought Argues for a point She finished her
of view Support reasons with
beyond family know/knew promise though facts and details homework.
bring/brought feel/felt listen read travel Use facts, vocabulary and Compound
Informative / She finished her
Explanatory details to explain the topic
catch/caught forest library recent voice homework because
Gives information Group information using headings it was due Monday.
close find/found make / made remember would and explains a topic Use illustrations/pictures
Complex
comfortable friend neighbor rocket write Describe a situation, introduce Before she went to
consider give/gave noise says/said wrong Narrative characters and narrator bed, she finished
Describes an event Use dialogue and describe her homework
careful generous oclock send/sent year because it was due
or experience the actions, thoughts and
describe gigantic occasionally sorry yesterday feelings of your characters Monday.

Punctuation Linking Words Craft and Structure

Poetry Prose Drama
A Capital letters for the start of and Phrases
sentences, names and places. therefore
Words used to express Straightforward, A play or show involving an
likewise in order to something in a musical way, everyday writing, event or situation, including:
. A period at the end of a sentence. also
using: like a story or
as well as and magazine article, Cast characters;
Exclamation points for surprise or Verse - the number of organized into:
! strong emotion. including since more lines in each stanza Setting when and where the
(group of verses); Sentences; drama or play takes place;
? Question marks for questions. especially because furthermore Rhythm - repeating Paragraphs Descriptions give the
pattern of syllables or - sentences reader information about
Apostrophes for showing something Conjunctions accent works in a poem; grouped together the setting or character;
belongs to someone, or for writing about the
a contraction. For And Nor But Or Yet So Meter - number of stressed same topic. Dialogue the spoken words
syllables in each line. between characters.
, Commas to separate items in a list
and clauses in a sentence. Compare vs. Contrast
Temporal / Ordering Words
Quotation marks around dialogue Compare Contrast
when a character is speaking. finally after afterwards
What is similar What is next following since
This is how to write dialogue,
he explained. or the same? different? eventually while begin