Hello, I am your Writing Wizard!

 

My job is to give you ideas. For each Lesson, you will find an opportunity for Interactive Writing Practice. Each practice page has 3 thought-provoking pictures. You will be asked to describe the situations in the pictures giving names to the characters and places. If you are at a loss for what to write, click on me within the Interactive Writing Practice page for each lesson, and I will give you some ideas!

1. Interactive Writing Practice Wizard - Lesson 1
2. Interactive Writing Practice Wizard - Lesson 2
3. Interactive Writing Practice Wizard - Lesson 3
4. Interactive Writing Practice Wizard - Lesson 4
5. Interactive Writing Practice Wizard - Lesson 5
6. Interactive Writing Practice Wizard - Lesson 6

Writing Checklist

As you work your way through the Interactive Writing Practices, you should develop the habit of checking your work. Every writer, both with English as their native language and English as a second language, need to look at their writing after completion and analyze it for possible mistakes. Look at your essay and ask yourself the following questions:

1. Are my Verb_Forms congruent? If I begin a sentence in the past tense, do I maintain that for the whole story except for the dialogue?
2. Have I respected Parallelism? In my sentences, are there any lists? Do I use the same part of speech in each item of the list?
3. Check every Preposition. Think each one through. When I say on, do I mean on top of?
4. This may be the most important part to check. Have I written with Conciseness? Have I repeated an words in a sentence or paragraph? Have I repeated any ideas? Do any two sentences mean the same thing?
5. Check the Punctuation. Are there any spaces between letters and the punctuation that follows? Where commas are used, could I remove the word or words contained in the commas and the sentence would still make sense?
6. Check the Capitalization. If the words are capitalized, are they proper nouns? If the words are lower case, are they common nouns?

Your writing check is now complete.

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