Writing Strands - Level 5 Author:Marks, Dave This book is for students who have finished Writing Strands 4 or new students who are 15-16 years old. Assignments are directed to the student. The book takes one full school year to complete and focuses on skills such as organization, narration, and argumentation. Writing Strands ???5 includes the following exercises: — 1. Narrative Voice Attitu... more »de
Identifying and creating attitudes in narrative voice
2. Interesting Sentences
Adding detail to sentences and varying sentence structure
3. Arguments that Win
Recognizing the points of an argument and writing a successful argument
4. Omniscient and Limited Knowledge
Learning the degrees of knowledge of a narrative voice
5. Write for Action
Writing in the active voice
6. Narrative Voice Position
Controlling and placing a narrative voice in a recognized position
7. Where to Start
Organizing a description
8. Dialogue
Punctuating dialogue and creating speech patterns for characters
9. An Author Makes the Reader Feel
Controlling a reader?s feelings
10. Out of Time
Controlling tense in dialogue while following story line
11. My Thumb
Organizing a description by seeing objects as groups of parts
12. Flashback
Learning about and using flashbacks
13. New House
Using description to control what a reader understands