{"id":1517,"date":"2018-02-18T10:00:42","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T10:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/?p=1517"},"modified":"2018-01-24T01:42:26","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T01:42:26","slug":"student-writing-vocabulary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/2018\/02\/18\/student-writing-vocabulary\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Writing – Vocabulary"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"It\u2019s important to help students understand that thoughtful word choice makes their writing stronger and more clear.<\/p>\n

Create a mini lesson. Share samples of good and less successful writings. Ask students:<\/p>\n

Do the writer\u2019s words describe the main characters so we can almost see them?<\/p>\n

Do the verbs show specific actions? (race <\/em>instead of went <\/em>or walk<\/em>?<\/p>\n

Can we imagine the setting by what the writer shares about where the story takes place?<\/p>\n

Does the writer engage our senses with sounds, smells, tastes, and touch as well as what we see?<\/p>\n

Are the transition words appropriate rather than repetitions of words like, \u2018and then\u2019<\/em>?<\/p>\n

Encourage students to make their writing as clear and concise as possible to create a stronger outcome.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s important to help students understand that thoughtful word choice makes their writing stronger and more clear. Create a mini lesson. Share samples of good and less successful writings. Ask students: Do the writer\u2019s words describe the main characters so we can almost see them? Do the verbs show specific actions? (race instead of went\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[301,22,16,259,302],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classroom-tips","category-language-arts","category-teacher-tips","category-vocabulary-skills","category-writing-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1517"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1559,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions\/1559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}