Roxann Saunders

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Writing Features

• Roxann Saunders
• K-5 Support Teacher
• Rhyne Elementary

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Focus
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Guiding Questions for Focus

• What is the focus of the paper?
• Does the author maintain focus throughout the
  paper?
• Is the focus narrow enough?
• Is the middle focused on one main event?
• What is the main event?
• How long does the author take to get to the main
  event?

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Organization
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Guiding Questions for Organization

• How is the paper organized?
• Does the beginning set up the middle?
• Is the middle the longest, most important part?
• Does the paper have an ending that ties the story
  together and gives it a sense of being a unified
  whole?
• Does the paper progress throughout or are there
  gaps?

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Support Elaboration
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Guiding Questions for Support and Elaboration

• Is the main idea of the paper developed?
• Does the paper contain evidence of elaboration?
• Does the elaboration support the main idea?
• Does the elaboration engage the reader and show
  the reader the actions or feelings of the story?

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Style
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Guiding Questions for Style

• What kind of sentences does the paper contain?
• Are there varied sentence structures so the paper
  does not become monotonous?
• What kind of word choice does the paper have?
• Are there lively words or sleepy words in the
  paper?
• Do the sentence structure and vocabulary make
  everything clear to the reader?

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Conventions
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Guiding Questions for Conventions

• Does the paper have reasonable control, minimal
  control, or lack of control of
• Sentence formation?
• Standard usage of grammar?
• Mechanics including use of capitalization,
  punctuation, and spelling?

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What score would you give this paper?