Grade 5 Processes Practice

Correcting grammar and spelling to prepare your writing for a large audience is which step in the writing process?

• editing

• revising

• drafting

• prewriting

Answer explanation

Editing is the final step in the writing process before publication.

Stopping to ask yourself questions about what you are reading is an example of what reading strategy?

• decoding

• questioning

• previewing

• visualizing

Answer explanation

Questioning keeps your mind engaged while you are reading a text.

Changing how your story is organized by adding or taking out sentences and paragraphs is which step in the writing process?

• drafting

• editing

• revising

• prewriting

Answer explanation

Revising focuses on changing the content of our writing while editing focuses on spelling and grammar.

It is important to get all of your ideas down on paper before you forget them rather then worry about spelling and grammar in this stage of the writing process:

• drafting

• editing

• revising

• prewriting

Answer explanation

Drafting can be easy if you have done enough prewriting.

What would be an example of a time when you would want to use standard English?

• in a letter to the editor of a newspaper

• in an email to your best friend

• in a text message to your mom

• in a note you passed in class

Answer explanation

It is good to use standard English any time you write formally.

Looking at the chapter titles first--along with any pictures, maps, or headings is an example of which reading strategy?

• visualizing

• previewing

• questioning

• decoding

Answer explanation

Previewing helps us to get an idea of what is coming in our reading and gets our mind ready for new information.

What would be an example of a time when you should use conversational English?

• in a letter to the editor of your newspaper

• in a research paper

• in a discussion thread for an online class

• in a text message to your best friend

Answer explanation

You can use conversational English when you are writing casual messages to family and friends.

What is the first step in the writing process?

• drafting

• editing

• prewriting

• revising

Answer explanation

Prewriting helps us get our ideas before we sit down to draft.

Sounding out words you don't know is an example of what reading strategy?

• visualizing

• previewing

• decoding

• questioning

Answer explanation

Decoding can also helps us become better at spelling.

Imagining what's happening to the characters as you read is an example of what reading strategy?

• visualizing

• questioning

• previewing

• decoding

Answer explanation

Visualizing helps us to get a mental picture of what is going on in a story.