Narrative Writing: Revising and Editing

Revise this: The forest was very beautiful.

• The forest was enchanting.

• The forest made me very happy.

• Redwoods stretched from the dense, green foliage into the blue sky.

• The forest was big and majestic. There were trees everywhere.

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CCSS.L.1.1F

CCSS.L.2.1E

Revise this: She experience an intense roller coaster ride.

• The wind swept her air and her eyes began to tear as she hurdled towards the loop.

• The Incredicoaster is an intense roller coaster.

• The roller coaster was scary!

• The loop on the Incredicoaster scared her.

Revise this: He gave his orders to the men.

• He shouted his orders at the men.

• "Mortars! Incoming! Get down! Get to cover!", he exclaimed.

• The lieutenant gave his orders to the people around him.

• The lieutenant told his men to get down and to get to cover.

Revise this: He was so angry.

• I had never seen him so angry.

• He had an furious and dangerous look on his face as he raged around the room.

• He shouted, cursed and hit the table.

• His brow furrowed and his veins popped. He slammed his fist onto the table.

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CCSS.L.2.1E

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.1G

Which typeface should you write characters' thoughts in?

• Normal Typeface

• Bold

• Underline

• Italics

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CCSS.L.5.2D

Which punctuation mark goes around dialogue?

• ,Commas,

• "Quotation Marks"

• 'Apostrophes'

• ;Semi-Colons;

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CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.5.2D

What punctuation mark goes at the end of most dialogue before the quotation mark?

• "Colons:"

• "Semi-Colons;"

• "Commas,"

• "Dashes-"

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CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.6.2A

Which dialogue is formatted correctly?

• "Is it this one?" they wondered.

• "Is it this one" they wondered.

• "Is it this one" they wondered."

• Is it this one? they wondered.

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CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.5.2D

Which of the following is most suspenseful?

• Behind the door was a giant, green bug.

• Behind the door was an evil horse with red eyes.

• Behind the door was a thousand poisonous snails.

• She heard a growling noise behind the closed door.

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CCSS.RL.7.3

Which verb tense is used in narrative writing?

• Past (She ran towards the fire.)

• Present (She runs towards the fire.)

• Future (She will run towards the fire.)

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CCSS.L.2.1D

CCSS.L.3.1E

CCSS.L.4.1B

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D