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CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.1.1c – Use singular and plural nouns with matching verbs in basic sentences (e.g., He hops; We hop). CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.1.1e – Use verbs to convey a sense of past, present, and future (e.g., Yesterday I walked home; Today I walk home; Tomorrow I will walk home). CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.2.1d – Form and use the past tense of frequently occurring irregular verbs (e.g., sat, hid, told). CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.1a – Explain the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in general and their functions in particular sentences. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.1d – Form and use regular and irregular verbs. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.1e – Form and use the simple (e.g., I walked; I walk; I will walk) verb tenses. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.1f – Ensure subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.4.1b – Form and use the progressive (e.g., I was walking; I am walking; I will be walking) verb tenses. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.5.1b – Form and use the perfect (e.g., I had walked; I have walked; I will have walked) verb tenses. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.5.1c – Use verb tense to convey various times, sequences, states, and conditions. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.5.1d – Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.8.1b – Form and use verbs in the active and passive voice. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.8.1c – Form and use verbs in the indicative, imperative, interrogative, conditional, and subjunctive mood. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.8.1d – Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in verb voice and mood. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.9-10.1b – Use various types of phrases (noun, verb, adjectival, adverbial, participial, prepositional, absolute) and clauses (independent, dependent; noun, relative, adverbial) to convey specific meanings and add variety and interest to writing or presentations.

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With so many verbs to choose from, it can be hard to narrow down your focus. this section has 509 worksheets to practice verbs that can help you. there are flashcards, practice activities, and creative worksheets that can make studying verbs more enjoyable for you and your students. for a simple worksheet appropriate for elementary learners, consider this one that focuses on using the verb to be . it has a number of different activities that can give students the extra practice they need to feel confident using this verb. there are many other worksheets to choose from so look through this section to find something your students will enjoy. students will be learning new vocabulary words continuously. beginners start off being inundated with unfamiliar words, intermediate learners consciously study more challenging words relating to a wider array of topics, and advanced learners increase their vocabulary mostly by exposure to more english material. advanced learners have the benefit of being able to guess the meaning of words based on the context of sentences while other learners often struggle to do this. verbs are an integral part of any language and as such there are a huge number of them. another worksheet on this site examines over eighty words with the same basic meaning of the word 'said' . that is a lot of different words with very similar meanings and is a great way to emphasize the fact that learning a language is a never ending process. read more... ...less.

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Verb tense worksheets terms of use, unit 1: using "to be".

• Verb Tenses Diagram - A diagram of verb tenses and examples

This unit contains worksheets outlining common usages of the verb "to be." Good for use with beginning level and intermediate level learners.

• Answer Key - This is the answer key to Unit 1 worksheets.
• Exercise 1 - Simple Present Tense
• Exercise 2 - Simple Present Tense
• Exercise 3 - Simple Present Tense
• Exercise 4 - Review of the Simple Present Tense
• Exercise 5 - Review of the Simple Present Tense
• Exercise 6 - Simple Past Tense
• Exercise 7 - Simple Past Tense
• Exercise 8 - Simple Past Tense
• Exercise 9 - Simple Past Tense
• Exercise 10 - Simple Present Tense and Simple Past Tense
• Exercise 11 - Simple Present Tense and Simple Past Tense
• Exercise 12 - Review of the Present Tense and Simple Past Tense
• Print all - Click here to print all worksheets in Unit 1, including the answer key

Unit 2: Present Tense

• Answer Key - This is the answer key to Unit 2 worksheets.
• Exercise 4 - Simple Present Tense
• Exercise 5 - Simple Present Tense
• Exercise 6 - Simple Present Tense
• Exercise 7 - Simple Present Tense
• Exercise 8 - Simple Present Tense
• Exercise 9 - Simple Present Tense
• Exercise 10 - Simple Present Tense
• Exercise 11 - Simple Present Tense
• Exercise 12 - Simple Present Tense
• Exercise 13 - Simple Present Tense
• Exercise 14 - Review of the Simple Present Tense
• Exercise 15 - Present Progressive Tense
• Exercise 16 - Present Progressive Tense
• Exercise 17 - Present Progressive Tense
• Exercise 18 - Present Progressive Tense
• Exercise 19 - Present Progressive Tense
• Exercise 20 - Present Progressive Tense
• Exercise 21 - Present Progressive Tense
• Exercise 22 - Present Progressive Tense
• Exercise 23 - Review of the Present Progressive Tense
• Exercise 24 - Simple Present Tense and Present Progressive Tense
• Exercise 25 - Simple Present Tense and Present Progressive Tense
• Exercise 26 - Review of the Simple Present Tense and Present Progressive Tense
• Exercise 27 - Simple Present Perfect Tense
• Exercise 28 - Simple Present Perfect Tense
• Exercise 29 - Simple Present Perfect Tense
• Exercise 30 - Simple Present Perfect Tense
• Exercise 31 - Simple Present Perfect Tense
• Exercise 32 - Simple Present Perfect Tense
• Exercise 33 - Simple Present Perfect Tense
• Exercise 34 - Present Perfect Progressive Tense
• Exercise 35 - Present Perfect Progressive Tense
• Exercise 36 - Simple Present Perfect Tense and Present Perfect Progressive Tense
• Exercise 37 - Review of the Simple Present Perfect Tense and Present Perfect Progressive Tense
• Exercise 38 - Cumulative Review of the Present Tense

Unit 3: Past Tense

This unit contains printable past tense worksheets. each worksheet includes an explanation and examples of the three aspects (simple, progressive, and perfect) of the past tense. practice involves filling in the blanks and rewriting sentences in the specified aspect of the past tense..

• Answer Key - This is the answer key to Unit 3 worksheets.
• Exercise 1 - Simple Past Tense
• Exercise 2 - Simple Past Tense
• Exercise 3 - Simple Past Tense
• Exercise 4 - Simple Past Tense
• Exercise 5 - Simple Past Tense
• Exercise 10 - Simple Past Tense
• Exercise 11 - Simple Past Tense
• Exercise 12 - Simple Past Tense
• Exercise 13 - Simple Past Tense
• Exercise 14 - Review of the Simple Past Tense
• Exercise 15 - Past Progressive Tense
• Exercise 16 - Past Progressive Tense
• Exercise 17 - Past Progressive Tense
• Exercise 18 - Past Progressive Tense
• Exercise 19 - Past Progressive Tense
• Exercise 20 - Past Progressive Tense
• Exercise 21 - Past Progressive Tense
• Exercise 22 - Past Progressive Tense
• Exercise 23 - Review of the Past Progressive Tense
• Exercise 24 - Simple Past Tense and Past Progressive Tense
• Exercise 25 - Simple Past Tense and Past Progressive Tense
• Exercise 26 - Simple Past Tense and Past Progressive Tense
• Exercise 27 - Review of the Simple Past Tense and Past Progressive Tense
• Exercise 28 - Simple Past Perfect Tense
• Exercise 29 - Simple Past Perfect Tense
• Exercise 30 - Simple Past Perfect Tense
• Exercise 31 - Simple Past Perfect Tense
• Exercise 32 - Simple Past Perfect Tense
• Exercise 33 - Past Perfect Progressive Tense
• Exercise 34 - Past Perfect Progressive Tense
• Exercise 35 - Past Perfect Progressive Tense
• Exercise 36 - Simple Past Perfect Tense and Past Perfect Progressive Tense
• Exercise 37 - Cumulative Review of the Past Tense

Unit 4: Future Tense

This unit contains printable future tense worksheets. each worksheet includes an explanation and examples of the three aspects (simple, progressive, and perfect) of the future tense. practice involves filling in the blanks and rewriting sentences in the specified aspect of the future tense..

• Will and Going to - an introduction to the difference between these two forms of the future tense
• Will and Going to answers - answers to the above worksheet
• Answer Key - This is the answer key to Unit 4 worksheets.
• Exercise 1 - Simple Future Tense
• Exercise 2 - Simple Future Tense
• Exercise 3 - Simple Future Tense
• Exercise 4 - Simple Future Tense
• Exercise 5 - Simple Future Tense
• Exercise 6 - Simple Future Tense
• Exercise 7 - Simple Future Tense
• Exercise 8 - Review of the Simple Future Tense
• Exercise 9 - Future Progressive Tense
• Exercise 10 - Future Progressive Tense
• Exercise 11 - Future Progressive Tense
• Exercise 12 - Review of the Future Progressive Tense
• Exercise 13 - Future Perfect Tense
• Exercise 14 - Review of the Simple Future Tense
• Exercise 15 - Future Perfect Tense
• Exercise 16 - Future Perfect Tense
• Exercise 17 - Future Perfect Progressive Tense
• Exercise 18 - Future Progressive Tense
• Exercise 19 - Review of the Future Progressive Tense
• Exercise 20 - Cumulative Review of the Future Tense

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Verbs and Tenses

With our Verbs and Tenses lesson plan, students learn how to use and identify different verbs and verb tenses, including the past, present, and future.

Included with this lesson are some adjustments or additions that you can make if you’d like, found in the “Options for Lesson” section of the Classroom Procedure page. One of the optional additions to this lesson is to give students a list of past, present, and future verbs, and have them write sentences for the verbs.

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Additional information, what our verbs and tenses lesson plan includes.

Lesson Objectives and Overview: Verbs and Tenses teaches students how to properly use different verbs and verb tenses in their writing. At the end of the lesson, students will be able to correctly use verbs to convey a sense of past, present, and future. This lesson is for students in 1st grade.

Classroom Procedure

Every lesson plan provides you with a classroom procedure page that outlines a step-by-step guide to follow. You do not have to follow the guide exactly. The guide helps you organize the lesson and details when to hand out worksheets. It also lists information in the green box that you might find useful. You will find the lesson objectives, state standards, and number of class sessions the lesson should take to complete in this area. In addition, it describes the supplies you will need as well as what and how you need to prepare beforehand. The only supplies you need for this lesson are the handouts.

Options for Lesson

Included with this lesson is an “Options for Lesson” section that lists a number of suggestions for activities to add to the lesson or substitutions for the ones already in the lesson. One optional adjustment to the lesson activity is to  create groups of students and assign a tense to each group to complete the paragraphs. One optional addition to the lesson is to have students to identify past, present, and future verb tenses in current reading content, such as stories. You can also give students a list of past, present, and future verbs, and have them write sentences for the verbs. Finally, you can conduct a “Verb Tense Bee” where you give students a verb and a tense and have them use them correctly in a sentence.

Teacher Notes

The teacher notes page includes a paragraph with additional guidelines and things to think about as you begin to plan your lesson. It notes that you might want to teach this lesson in conjunction with other lessons related to verbs. This page also includes lines that you can use to add your own notes as you’re preparing for this lesson.

VERBS AND TENSES LESSON PLAN CONTENT PAGES

The Verbs and Tenses lesson plan includes four pages of content. Students already know that we use verbs for actions, like the words walk, run, sleep and eat. People can do actions at different times. Actions can happen in the past, present, or future.

The past is yesterday, last week, a few minutes ago, or a hundred years ago. The present is today, now, at this exact moment. The future is tomorrow, a few days or minutes from now, next week, next month, or a hundred years from now.

We need to know when an action takes place, because we need to use the correct tense to use it in a sentence or when speaking. The tenses included past, present, and future.

We can show the different tenses using the commonly used verb walking . Yesterday, Eva walked home. Today, Eva walks home. Tomorrow, Eva will walk home.

The first sentence is past tense, the second is present, and the third is future. In the past tense, we added an -ed to the word.  In the present tense, we add an -s . And in the future, we add the helping verb will to the sentence before the word walk .

We must use the correct verb tense for each action. The way that we form the different tenses can also change. For example, you do not always add an -s in the present tense.

The lesson then lists some examples of verbs used in the past, present, and future tenses. One of these examples is: I jumped rope this morning (past). Now, I jump rope (present). I will jump rope later (future).

Sometimes, you need to add words to form a new tense, like with ate (past), eat (present), and will eat (future). Most past tense verbs need an -ed or -d , present tense verbs stay the same or need an -s , and future tense verbs need a helping verb like will .

Using the Correct Verb Tenses

Before you use action verbs and verb tenses, you need to determine if the action happened in the past, present, or future. You can then choose the right verb tense and verb.

For example, if you’re telling your parents a story about something that happened at school, you’ll use past tense verbs because the action has already happened. You might use some of the following sentences to describe your day: I walked to school with Tyler. Tyler laughed at all my jokes. We had fun as we walked to school.

If you told someone about actions taking place in the present, you might say:  I take a math test. I eat lunch. I play outside with my friends during recess.

If you’re reading about things that might happen in the future, you might read: Later, Nathan will eat a snack. Next, he will watch some television and will do his homework. His father will arrive home, and he will catch some baseball with Nathan.

If you’re only speaking or writing about the past, you should only use past tense verbs. If you’re only speaking or writing about the future, you should only use future tense verse. However, you often speak or write in multiple tenses at once. You must make sure that the sentences still make sense! For example, you might write: John woke late this morning. He wanted to get extra sleep, because he will play a soccer game later.

It’s important to remember to think about when the action takes place and choose the correct verb tense. You should also make sure to use the correct verb ending or use a different verb to make sure the action and tense match.

VERBS AND TENSES LESSON PLAN WORKSHEETS

The Verbs and Tenses lesson plan includes three worksheets: an activity worksheet, a practice worksheet, and a homework assignment. You can refer to the guide on the classroom procedure page to determine when to hand out each worksheet.

BIRTHDAY PARTY ACTIVITY WORKSHEET

Students will work with a partner to complete the activity worksheet. Each pair will imagine that they’re at a birthday party and will write three paragraphs describing the party. They will write each paragraph using a different verb tense: past, present, and future.

Students can also work either alone or in groups to complete this activity.

PAST, PRESENT, OR FUTURE PRACTICE WORKSHEET

The practice worksheet asks students to read sentences, circle the verbs, and tell whether each verb is used in the past, present, or future tense. They will also use a word from the provided word bank to fill in the blanks in sentences.

VERBS AND TENSES HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT

For the homework assignment, students will complete three short exercises. First, they will write sentences using each of the listed words and verb tenses. Next, they will review the list of words and will write past, present, or future next to each. Finally, they will use their own verbs and write sentences for each verb tense.

Worksheet Answer Keys

This lesson plan includes answer keys for the practice worksheet and the homework assignment. If you choose to administer the lesson pages to your students via PDF, you will need to save a new file that omits these pages. Otherwise, you can simply print out the applicable pages and keep these as reference for yourself when grading assignments.

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Verbs worksheets for third grade.

Our grade 3 verb worksheets cover normal verb usage, subject-verb agreement, verb tenses including the progressive verb tenses, and the distinctions between action verbs, linking verbs and helping verbs.

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Identifying verbs - circle the verbs in the sentences

Verbs and nouns - circle the verbs and underline the nouns in the word list

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Commonly confused verbs - will / would; can / may; raise / rise / rose

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Subject-verb agreement - write the form (singular / plural) of the verb that agrees with the subject

Action verbs, linking verbs and helping verbs

Action verbs - identify and use action verbs in sentences

Linking verbs - identify linking verbs ( am, is, are ... ) in sentences

Action verb or linking verb? - classify verbs as action verbs or linking verbs

Helping verbs - underline the main verb and circle the helping verb ( e.g. have seen )

Verb tenses

Past, present of future? - is the sentence in the past, present or future?

Irregular verbs - complete the sentence using the past tense of the irregular verbs

Past and present tenses - rewrite sentences in the present or past tenses

Progressive verb tenses - write verbs in their past, present and future progressive form

Sample grade 3 verbs worksheet

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Verbs in Writing Assignments

One of the most important things that you can do is to read the assignment carefully before you begin to write. The verb that your professor uses can give you clues. To work out exactly what your professor expects from your paper, learn how to look for the verbs in writing assignments.

Here are some verbs commonly used in History essay and paper questions. Be sure you know what you are being asked to do. Also, try to use these verbs in your own writing.

• Analyze: Take apart and look at each part closely
• Compare: Look for similarities & differences; stress similarities
• Contrast: Look for similarities & differences; stress differences
• Critique: Point out both positive & negative aspects
• Define: Explain exactly what something means
• Describe: Show what something looks like, including physical features
• Discuss: Explore an issue from all sides; implies wide latitude
• Evaluate: make a value judgment according to some criteria (which you make clear)
• Explain: Clarify or interpret how something works or happens
• Illustrate: Show by means of example or educated speculation
• Interpret: Translate how or why; implies some subjective judgment
• Justify: Argue in support of something, to find positive reasons
• List: Order facts, attributes, or items in sequence
• Outline: Organize according to hierarchy and/or category
• Prove: Demonstrate correctness by use of logic, fact or example
• Review: reexamine the main points or highlights of something
• State: Assert with confidence
• Summarize: Put together the main points; condense
• Synthesize: Combine pieces or concepts into new pieces or concept
• Trace: Present an outline, or show a sequence, of how or why something occurs or happened

Critical Thinking Verbs

Writing assignments provide opportunities for students to engage in rich problem-solving to support learning outcomes. Students find such problem-focused assignments particularly engaging. Consider how the following critical thinking verbs in a writing assignment encourage students to engage in complex rhetorical tasks. Deep learning requires actively engaging with content, and each of these  action  verbs will get them doing just that.

Just as importantly,  instructors should explain what each verb means to them . For example, “analyze” in one class or discipline could mean something completely different in another context. Analyze could mean: determine how individual parts create or relate to the whole; figure out how something works; explain what something means; or justify why it is important.

Critical Thinking Verbs (Partial list)

• Distinguish

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Policy Analysis and Recommendation :  For this major assignment, you will  research  one problem facing non-western societies that we discussed in class. You will learn more about this problem through library research, finding peer-reviewed academic articles, and sources that pass the CRAP test. Your paper will have three sections. First, you will  analyze  the problem using the five perspectives learned in class, using specific, cited examples from your sources. Next, you will  identify  and  explain  several policy options, and finally  recommend  a final policy to address the problem.

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Module 4: Writing Workshop—Writing in College

Breaking down the assignment, learning objectives.

• Describe ways to manage the expectations of writing tasks given in a college class

Figure 1 . Having a good understanding of what an assignment asks of you is similar to having a map to lead you to your destination.

Let’s say you want to drive from Chicago to Springfield, IL. What would be your first step? Do you just start driving south and hope you hit your destination? Not if you actually want to get there. No, you take out a map and… who are we kidding? You type “Springfield” into an app and follow the directions, right? So far so good. Make a right, make a left, get on the highway… Ten hours later, you find yourself in Springfield, Arkansas. As you make a U-turn and head back to Illinois, you think: all this could have been avoided if you had just zoomed out on the map to check the whole route.

The same principle applies to writing assignments. Before we start writing the assignment, we need to get an overview of the whole task. What are we turning in? When are we turning it in? How will it be evaluated? What are the steps along the way?

Before you plunge into the assignment, take the time to look carefully at the different components.

The purpose of this section is to help you break down the questions and map out a strategy for completing an assignment successfully.

Breaking It Down

Step 1: read the prompt carefully, all the way through.

Then read it again. Mark any words or phrases that you don’t understand, then attempt to use clues from the supporting sentences to figure out the meaning. If you still don’t fully understand, talk about it with a classmate or ask your instructor for clarification. (See the next page for more about this).

Step 2: Find the verbs and action items

When breaking down a writing prompt, a good first step is to look at the verbs. What specifically are they asking you to do? On the left, we see the original writing prompt. On the right, let’s list the verbs and the action items.

These verbs tell us a lot about what the assignment is looking for. Verbs you may commonly see in writing assignments include:

Step 3: Identify the Deliverables

In project management, “deliverables” are the specific items that must be delivered to consider the project or project phase completed. Some college assignments have obvious deliverables (an essay final draft, for instance), but others are less clear. If the assignment is to “read chapter 4 for Tuesday’s class,” there is no explicit deliverable. If you have to turn in a reading report on chapter 4, the report is the deliverable (but the reading is the main part of the assignment). When you’re breaking down a writing assignment, make sure you understand the deliverable: are you handing in an outline, a rough draft, or a final draft?

How long should it be? Are there any specifications about how the assignment should be formatted? How should you hand it in?

And it goes almost without saying: when is it due?

Step 4: Make a plan

Now that we know what we have to turn in and when it’s due, we can plan out how to complete the assignment. Is it a multi-week project with multiple stages, or a 10-minute freewrite? This is a good time to pull out your calendar and decide when you’re going to complete the work for the assignment.

Step 5: Identify required components of the assignment

Often, the writing prompt or assignment will include information about what the instructor expects to see in the completed assignment. These expectations might be stated explicitly (clearly), like this:

• Your essay should contain 3 quotes from sources we’ve used in class
• Your narrative should include characters, conflict, sensory details.
• Your essay must include a presentation of the opposing views, along with lines of reasoning to refute them

Sometimes the instructor will provide a grading rubric. Grading rubrics state the criteria the instructor will be using to grade the paper and can be very helpful for understanding the expectations for the assignment.

Step 6: Freewrite

Do a quick brainstorm and freewrite related to the prompt. What are your first impressions? What are your initial ideas? What could you write about? How do you imagine this essay will look?

You can use your freewrite ideas to get started on the assignment itself and to develop a working thesis statement and outline to guide you through your work. Remember,you don’t have to have a perfect plan from the beginning but can come back and make changes while you write.

Understanding the Assignment

Imagine you’ve been assigned the following prompt for an argumentative essay.

Writing Prompt:

In this assignment choose a specific issue in which two credible parties have documented clearly opposing positions and have clear agendas.

Choose the position you agree with and argue that position using:

• Three separate lines of reasoning to support your position
• Research to support each line of reasoning (example, testimony, and fact/data, or any combination) that supports your position
• Research about the opposing position’s views
• Present the opposing views, along with lines of reasoning to refute them

First, let’s find the verbs.

• Present  the opposing views, along with lines of reasoning to refute them

Good, so you need to choose, argue, research, and present.

Are there any words you don’t understand?

Maybe we don’t know what “lines of reasoning” are. But the parentheses right after seems to suggest that lines of reasoning are specifics (examples, facts) that back up a position. Ok.

What are the deliverables?

We don’t know the length or details of the essay, but we know it will be an argumentative essay or presentation about something with which there are two obvious sides. We need to choose a side and have three “lines of reasoning.”

This prompt is asking us to take a stance with at least three pieces of evidence, and to support each of those pieces of evidence with research. We will also need to address the opposite viewpoint.

Now that we understand the assignment, we can freewrite possible ideas.

Two opposing views. Maybe abortion? No, too common and controversial, and I wrote about that in another class. What interest me—Education? Sports? Social justice issues? Should college athletes be paid? Should college be free? How can we eradicate poverty? Are preschool programs effective? Okay, how about college being free. Pros—everyone can go, no more massive debt, people more likely to study what interests them, more opportunities for advancement. Cons—too expensive, someone needs to pay for it somehow, what if people don’t want to go to college, how long will it take, can it be truly free, etc. I think I could find out more about this.

Remember, the freewrite is just one step in the overall writing process. Later, for this particular assignment, we will need to do research to find lines of reasoning and then understand opposing views. But with careful analysis of the prompt and a freewrite, we are on our way.

Writing Workshop: Breaking down the prompt

You will begin with reading the writing prompt, identifying the verbs, and creating an action plan to address the assignment.

Once you have completed this, you will then do a free write for five minutes about the writing prompt.

Let’s look at a writing prompt together.

Writing Prompt :

• Read through the whole assignment. There’s a lot there, so make sure you read all the way through– don’t leap to conclusions.
• In your Working Document, list the key verbs or action items in the prompt (particularly in the section with the heading “Assignment Instructions”). What are you supposed to do here?
• What to turn in: ________________________
• How to turn it in: ________________________
• Estimated time needed: ________________________
• When would you find this time? ________________________
• What components or characteristics are expected in this essay? Type (or cut and paste) a list of the elements required in this essay.
• In your Working Document, do a five-minute freewrite.  If you were going to do this assignment, what could you write about?
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