What are some other things you can do to make your writing starts "sizzling"?

Make the reader curious and create a moment of change.

Step 2 is called "Sizzling Starts". What's one way you can successfully start your writing?

Start in the middle, find something exciting to describe.

Dynamic Dialogue is Step 4. What is dialogue?

Speech by characters or quotes in quotation marks.

Name another strategy that can help improve your "sizzling start" or even the middle or end?

Lots of imagery and good imaginative and descriptive words.

What is persuasive writing?

Writing that argues a particular point of view.

When should you use dialogue in persuasive writing?

When you are quoting an expert, a definition or an example.

In planning for persuasive writing, what needs to go in the 1st part of the story graph?

Sizzling start, engage reader's interest, give your opinion

The third step in Seven Steps is "Tightening Tension". Name a strategy that helps you do this.

Making good use of the five (or even six) senses.

What are the five (or six) senses that can help improve your writing?

See, hear, taste, touch, smell, feel

Now, name the best ending in from these four examples.

"Dragons are hard to hide, but we managed it."

In Plan for Success for narrative writing, what should go in the last part of the story graph?

Conflict, building tension, action climax and resolution.

Step 5 is "Show, Don't Tell". What does this mean?

Paint word pictures, use detail to help readers see ideas.

We haven't introduced Step 1 "Plan for Success" until now because...

It's important to get your ideas flowing first.

When using dialogue in narrative writing, should you always follow it with "he (or) she says"?

Vary it with different words (eg. yells, whispers, screams)

In Plan for Success for narrative writing, what needs to go in the 1st part of the story graph?

Start with action, orientation and backfill.

Why would "Ban the Boring" be an important step to do?

If you cut out boring parts, it helps your ideas stand out.

Can techniques like Seven Steps be useful for persuasive AND narrative writing?

Some of the 7 Steps techniques help all genres of writing.

The last of the Seven Steps is Exciting Endings or Ending with Impact. Name the best ending.

"The sound of water came softly. Drip, drip, drip..."

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Seven Steps of Writing

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A test to see how well you understand the "Seven Steps" writing process. This will help you to become a better writer.

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1
What are some other things you can do to make your writing starts "sizzling"?
Begin with a lot of background information about characters.
Make the reader curious and create a moment of change.
Begin with a lot of descriptive detail about the places.
Always begin with "Once upon a time" or "My argument is..."
2
Step 2 is called "Sizzling Starts". What's one way you can successfully start your writing?
Start at the beginning and always tell the story in order.
Start in the middle, find something exciting to describe.
Use the word "then" quite a lot to link things that happen.
Always tell the story in order and tell everything
3
Dynamic Dialogue is Step 4. What is dialogue?
When you describe two different people.
Speech by characters or quotes in quotation marks.
When someone speaks and you paraphrase what was said.
When you go to Chapter 2 of a story.
4
Can you remember what Step 6 is?
Bring the Boring Bits
Boring the Bands
Ban the Best Bits
Ban the Boring
5
Name another strategy that can help improve your "sizzling start" or even the middle or end?
Keeping your verbs simple and short.
Lots of imagery and good imaginative and descriptive words.
Lots of repeated connecting words like "then" or "so".
Making sure your characters never use dialogue.
6
What is persuasive writing?
Writing that explains something.
Writing that tells a story.
Writing that tells you what to do.
Writing that argues a particular point of view.
7
When should you use dialogue in persuasive writing?
You don't ever need to.
Only if characters are speaking.
When you are quoting an expert, a definition or an example.
Use it but never put it in quotation marks.
8
In planning for persuasive writing, what needs to go in the 1st part of the story graph?
Start with "I believe that..."
Sizzling start, engage reader's interest, give your opinion
Begin with your opinion.
Begin with lots of background.
9
The third step in Seven Steps is "Tightening Tension". Name a strategy that helps you do this.
Putting all the exciting detail into one long paragraph.
Telling everything that possibly happens.
Starting each sentence the same way (such as "He went...")
Making good use of the five (or even six) senses.
10
What are the five (or six) senses that can help improve your writing?
See, hear, fear, laugh, guess
See, hear, sit, walk, run
See, hear, taste, touch, smell, feel
Feel, hear, taste, touch
11
Now, name the best ending in from these four examples.
"They all lived happily ever after."
"Dragons are hard to hide, but we managed it."
"Therefore, big families are better than small families."
Police rescue 101 (Never seen police in the story before)
12
In Plan for Success for narrative writing, what should go in the last part of the story graph?
Conflict, building tension, action climax and resolution.
End with "and in the end..."
Make sure you write "The End".
Tell what happens to the characters at the end of the day.
13
Step 5 is "Show, Don't Tell". What does this mean?
Paint word pictures, use detail to help readers see ideas.
Telling as much of the story as you can.
Don't distract the reader with description.
Always sticking to the point.
14
We haven't introduced Step 1 "Plan for Success" until now because...
I forgot.
Planning is the least important part.
It's important to get your ideas flowing first.
You should plan only at the end.
15
When using dialogue in narrative writing, should you always follow it with "he (or) she says"?
Yes, always.
You should only use "he (or) she says" sometimes.
No, never.
Vary it with different words (eg. yells, whispers, screams)
16
In Plan for Success for narrative writing, what needs to go in the 1st part of the story graph?
Start with action, orientation and backfill.
Introducing all the characters.
Give lots of detail.
Setting the plot.
17
Why would "Ban the Boring" be an important step to do?
It keeps the writer busy.
If you include lots of detail, it will make it longer.
If you cut out boring parts, it helps your ideas stand out.
If you leave parts of your writing, it will fit on the page.
18
Can techniques like Seven Steps be useful for persuasive AND narrative writing?
Only if you ignore dialogue.
I'd only ever use it persuasively.
No, it is only relevant or useful for narrative writing.
Some of the 7 Steps techniques help all genres of writing.
19
The last of the Seven Steps is Exciting Endings or Ending with Impact. Name the best ending.
"BOOM, the plane blew up and they all died."
"And then I woke up, it was all a dream."
"To be continued..."
"The sound of water came softly. Drip, drip, drip..."
20
What is narrative writing?
Writing that puts forward an argument.
Writing that tells you what to do.
Writing that expresses a point of view.
Writing that recounts a story.

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