Precise Words and Relevant Details Worksheets

Related ELA Standard: W.8.3.D

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Choosing the right words or order of words to use when trying to engage in a logical argument are important and they will often dictate whether you are able to achieve your goal at all. The effect of imprecision can be profound and often change the readers feeling about any piece. Revising your word choice and pick up on the right ideas can maintain a consistent voice for your reader to become comfortable with. These worksheets will help students choose their words wisely and work towards making them more proficient writers.

Precise Words and Relevant Details Worksheets To Print:

Using Precise Words – Single word fills will never ever get old.

Conveying Experience – How is your morning trip to school? Mine too!

Be Precise! – Matching and then fill ins, that's not that precise.

Including Relevant Details – If you could share something with your classmates, what would it be?

The Wonders of Technology – Do they ever seem to stop inventing something new?

Precise Words and Sensory Details – In each paragraph below, underline the words that you think are vague.

Descriptive Writing is Precise Writing – Write a descriptive paragraph about something that happened to you recently.

Painting Pictures with Precise Words – In each sentence, the blank represents the word "makes."

Picking Precise Words – Replace each general word with a precise word.

It's Interesting. . . But Is It Relevant? – Complete the exercise below to practice using only relevant details in your writing.

Writing Instructions – Have you ever had trouble following instructions for something?

The Art of Giving Directions – It is generally recognized that there are two styles of giving directions.

Eyewitness! – Lawyers often depend on the testimony of an eyewitness in order to convict someone of a crime.

Providing Relevant Details – Practice using precise language and conveying relevant details by describing a problem that you have had recently.

Whip it up! Or should I blend it up? – Write a descriptive paragraph about how you prepared something you have cooked before, or, if you have never cooked before, consult a recipe about something you would like to cook.

What Are Precise Words And Relevant Details


Both the use of precise words and relevant details are two important components of any skillfully written piece. Inclusion of these components gives a good impression of any written work and makes it effective for the readers. These terms are needed to be defined separately to understand them in a better way.


Given below is their description along with the advantages of using these in your texts:


Precise Words


Precise words are the short alternative words for long phrases. They are clear, easy to understand, and constructive words. For example, precise word for "a majority of" is "most". Precise words convey a similar meaning as the longer phrases but with more clarity. A skillful writer knows that using specific precise words will have an impact on his/her audience. Here are some of the advantages of using these words in your writings:


- Use of precise words in writing provides clarity and ease to the readers
- It provides freedom from the long phrases consisting of prepositions
- These words help to create clear mental pictures
- Precise words help you meet word limits whenever they are needed


Relevant Details


Adding relevant details means that the author only writes what strengthens and supports the main topic. Relevancy is the utmost important trait of any good writing. A good piece of writing is not to be overloaded with extra and unnecessary details that drag the topic. By reading a text with only the relevant details, a reader will know that the writer is confident of what he is writing and have a clear idea in mind. Here are some of the advantages of adding only the relevant details in your text:


- Relevant details make your work more understandable
- They support your topic and provide examples
- Relevant details give true meaning to the writing


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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