Starter quiz

  • What is a plan?
    • a framework that writers create before they write a section or whole text  ✓
    • a framework that writers create after they write a section or whole text
    • a framework that writers create during the writing of a section or whole text
  • What are notes?
    • specific and long pieces of information you write down to help you remember
    • full sentences you write down to help you to remember
    • short reminders or pieces of information you write down to help you remember  ✓
  • Which of these is vocabulary relating to hot weather?
    • scorching  ✓
    • blustery
    • burning  ✓
    • icy
  • Which of these are examples of expanded noun phrases?
    • beating down with fury
    • as hot as the surface of the sun
    • burning, scorching heat  ✓
    • humid, tropical weather  ✓
  • How does imagining colours help us choose vocabulary?
    • It taps into our sense of danger.
    • It taps into our sense of hunger and thirst.
    • It helps us imagine what feelings we want to create in our reader.  ✓
  • Fill in the blank in the following sentence: 'All around, the calm sea __________ like polished glass.'
    • thrashed
    • glistened  ✓
    • bounced
    • howled
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