Get Ready to Write
A WebQuest for 6th,7th and 8th Grades
by
Gail Blow
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CONTENTS
-Introduction
-Writing to Learn
-Writing to Tell a Story
-Writing to Describe
-Writing to Inform
-Writing to Persuade
-Assessment
 

INTRODUCTION

This information will help students to get started on a new writing project.  It will show them how to become better writers, and it can help them when they have questions.  They will examine the four reasons to writing, and decide what skills they will have to develop during school to be better  writers.   Finally  students will write an essay using the fours reasons to writing.

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Writing to Learn 
From the time you wake up in the morning until you go to bed at night, you are learning.
You learn at home, in school, and by exploring the world  around you.  You learn by reading, watching, doing , and listening.

You also learn by writing.  When you write d information, you can read it and think about
the ideas.

Writing helps you

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Writing to Tell a Story

ALL well- written stories have a beginning, a middle , and a end.

Think Like a Writer

          Your friends, your family, your teacher? back to contents

Writing to Describe

How do you write a description?

Describing is giving a picture of something in words.  You can describe something in words.  You can describe something by telling
 

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Writing to Inform
Information, Please!

Do you have a subject that you know a lot about?  Then you too are a source for
information.  When you write to inform, you give readers facts and information.

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Writing to Persuade

How do you get others to agree with you?

When you want other people to see things your ways, you needs to give them reasons why they should agree with you.

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Assessment

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