Common Vocabulary

adjective

adverb

asking sentence

author

beginning

brainstorm

capitalization

character

clear

compare

complete paragraphs

complete predicate

complete subject

concluding sentence

connections

contrast

descriptive

details

direct object

draft

edit

end

environmental text

events

examples

exclamation point

exclamation sentence

fluency

focus

genre

heart of the story

illustrations

illustrator

imagination

imperative

informational text

interesting

interrogative

main idea

middle

naming words

narrative

noun

nursery rhymes

order

organization

period

personal narration

picture books

plot

poetry

point of view

predict

prediction

preposition

prewrite

prior knowledge

problem

proofread

publish

punctuation

question mark

quotation marks

revise

revise

sequence

sequential

setting

simple predicate

simple subject

solution

songs

stories

subject

summarize

telling sentence

text to self

text to text

topic sentence

topics

transitional words

verb

voice

writing process