Writing: Choose a Genre 1.2.1

Lesson 1.2.1​

Writing: Choose a Genre

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Multiple Choice

Look at the following sentences:

The shy child sang quietly.

The snow fell silently overnight.

What part of speech are the underlined words?

• Noun

• Verb

• Adjective

• Adverb

• angrily

• happily

• cheerfully

​​How?

• away

• here

• there

• off

Where?

• today

• tomorrow

• later

When?

• normally

• never

• quite

• deeply

• barely

How often and how much?

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Narrative writing tells a story.

Narrative Writing

Informative writing provides information about a topic.

​​Informative Writing

Opinion writing expresses the author's ideas and thoughts.

Opinion Writing

​We previously reviewed three types of writing. They are...

The Writing Process

Over the next couple of lessons you are going to complete a piece of writing. You will go through the writing process.

Remember that the writing process is made up of five steps:

1. prewriting- our focus for today

2. drafting

3. revising

4. editing

5. publishing

​Write down some ideas for topics you could write about for each genre.

Writing Activity book page 6

Match

Match the topics to the genre

• Narrative

• Informative

• Opinion

family vacation, first day of school

facts on animals or historic event

Convince your parents to get a pet

• family vacation, first day of school

• facts on animals or historic event

• Convince your parents to get a pet

​Upcoming Writing Lessons

You will be writing 3 to 4 paragraphs about your topic.

Look over your ideas.

• Which do you think sounds like the most fun to write about?

• Which are you sure you can write 3 to 4 paragraphs about?

Poll

Read what you have written for each genre. Choose your favorite genre. You will need this choice for a future writing practice.

• Narrative

• Informative

• Opinion