Terminology
- Modes – the purpose for writing (e.g., narrative, expository, persuasive)
- Genres – categories of writing (e.g., travel, book review, biography)
- Formats – the structures of writing (e.g., time order, cause & effect, point-by-point)
The Common Core State Standards - Basic Modes of Writing
- Informative/ explanatory
- Narrative
- Opinion / argument
Visual-Graphic Organizers Recommended by Lexercise
- Informative/ explanatory
- Expanding Expression© Tool
- Time-order organizer
- Process (how/why) organizer
- How-to organizer
- Compare & contrast organizer
- Book report organizer
- History report organizer
- Narrative
- Personal narrative
- Creative narrative
- Opinion / argument
- Persuasion organizer
- Book / movie review organizer
- Poetry
- Haiku
- Rhymed poetry
- Couplet
- Triplet
- Quatrain
- Limerick
Resources
- The concept of a visual organizer - Wikipedia’s article
- Google’s images – visual-graphic organizers for every purpose
- The Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts
- Poetry For Kids