| Writing
Features
& Descriptions |
General
Writing
Challenge Areas |
How
can the arts
help student writers. |
Style & Word Choice
Strategic use of language and word choice for the topic and/or
audience
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Some students need help to adapt their style
to suit their audience and purpose.
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How can the arts help student writers
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Recognize and describe different styles in
writing and other arts areas?
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Adapt their style to suit different writing
purposes?
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Recognize, describe and evaluate the impact
of different styles?
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Practice flexibility in their writing style
& voice, from formal to informal?
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Create vivid dialogue?
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Paint sensory word pictures in the minds of
their readers?
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Brainstorm and revise more vivid or sensory
ways to communicate the same message?
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Write more specifically through detail and word
choice?
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Use word choice resources, such as the thesaurus
and close observation?
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Analyze and give feedback on the word choices
of other writers?
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Identify parallels between style and voice in
writing and other arts areas?
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Writing
and Illustrating Similes
