Writing Styles

Can you identify the purpose of expository writing?

• To influence an action or thought.

• To explain, inform, provide information, or describe.

• To tell a story, real or imaginative.

• To describe through using important details.

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

Can you identify the purpose of narrative writing?

• To explain, inform, provide information, or describe.

• To describe through using important details.

• To influence an action or thought.

• To tell a story, real or imaginative.

Tags

CCSS.W.6.3A

Can you identify the purpose of descriptive writing?

• To influence an action or thought.

• To tell a story, real or imaginative.

• To explain, inform, provide information, or describe.

• To describe through using important details.

Tags

CCSS.W.6.3D

Can you identify the purpose of persuasive writing?

• To influence an action or thought.

• To tell a story, real or imaginative.

• To describe through using important details.

• To explain, inform, provide, information, or describe.

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.6

Identify this example: On April 14th, 1912, the Titanic struck an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean. Due to the fact that there were only 20 lifeboats on the entire ship with over 2,000 people aboard, approximately 1,500 lives were lost.

• Narrative

• Descriptive

• Persuasive

• Expository

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.3

Identify this example: As the Titanic was prepared to leave from Ireland, thousands of people attended the send-off. As is tradition, a champaign bottle is broken on the bow of the ship to signify good luck and safe travels. As the audience watched expectedly from afar as the bottle was in motion, it did not break against the ship.

• Persuasive

• Narrative

• Expository

• Descriptive

Tags

CCSS.W.6.3D

Identify this example: Imagine relaxing in a hammock off of the beach. You feel the sand beneath your toes as you decide to swim in the Atlantic Ocean. The sun is warm, the water is cool, and the breeze is just right. Where can you experience this? Only in Florida. Plan your trip today!

• Narrative

• Descriptive

• Persuasive

• Expository

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.W.6.3D

Identify this example: The woman analyzed the painting that hung in the museum. It was of a field of various wild flowers. If you were far away, you would think that the painter only used hints of blue and purple. But as she looked deep into the painting, she could see pink and yellow. The flowers were so detailed that she caught herself reaching out to pick one from the field.

• Descriptive

• Expository

• Persuasive

• Narrative

Tags

CCSS.W.6.3A

CCSS.W.6.3D

lightning danced across the sky

• personification

• paradox

• idiom

• hyperbole

This box weighs a ton!!!!

• personification

• paradox

• idiom

• hyperbole