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Planning Before You Write

English · Writing Composition · ages 6-10
Name ______________________   Date ____________

  1. Look at the story map. What do its three boxes help you plan?

    BeginningMiddleEnd
    • The colours, shapes and sizes
    • What happens first, next and last
    • Your name, your class and today's date

  2. You have an idea for a sentence. What can help you try it out before writing?

    • Say the sentence aloud
    • Erase words already written
    • Count the pages in your book

  3. When you plan a story, you must write full sentences.

    Circle one:   True   False

  4. For this story, Sam plants a seed first, waters it next, and sees a shoot last. Which order matches his plan?

    • Plant seed, water seed, see shoot
    • See shoot, plant seed, water seed
    • Water seed, see shoot, plant seed

  5. Zoe wants short notes to remember a story about her dog losing a ball in the park. Which notes keep those ideas?

    • dog, garden, found a bone
    • cat, park, lost a ribbon
    • dog, park, lost a ball

  6. Your planning note says 'rain, boots'. Which spoken sentence uses both ideas before you write?

    • I wore my boots in the snow.
    • I wore my boots in the rain.
    • I wore my hat in the rain.

  7. Ava wants to remember seeing a lion, eating ice cream and feeling tired on her zoo trip. Her notes say 'zoo, lion, tired'. Which note is missing?

    • ate ice cream
    • saw a giraffe
    • rode the bus

  8. Leo checks his plan: Beginning: lose toy. Middle: look under bed. End: empty. He wants to finish with finding the toy. Which note should he add to the End box?

    • lose the toy before looking for it
    • look under the bed for the toy
    • find the toy behind a box
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  1. What happens first, next and last · Beginning, middle and end help you plan what happens first, next and last.
  2. Say the sentence aloud · Saying the sentence aloud lets you try out the words before writing them.
  3. False · A plan may use short notes. Full sentences are allowed but are not required.
  4. Plant seed, water seed, see shoot · Sam's beginning is planting, his middle is watering, and his ending is seeing the shoot.
  5. dog, park, lost a ball · The notes keep Zoe's dog, the park and the lost ball without changing her ideas.
  6. I wore my boots in the rain. · 'I wore my boots in the rain' turns both notes into a sentence you can rehearse.
  7. ate ice cream · Ava's notes already include the lion and feeling tired. They do not include eating ice cream.
  8. find the toy behind a box · 'Find the toy behind a box' supplies the missing ending Leo wants.
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