Writing Structure Worksheets

Related ELA Standard: W.5.1.A

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If you want anything structured well whether it be a paragraph or a tray of fruit, you need to plan it out first. When it comes to writing, anything that is well written was planned out first. Well written pieces just have a smooth feeling and flow to them. We encourage students to first brainstorm and outline the themes they are trying to hit on in their pieces. After you know your themes and the order you would like to present them, it is time to move on to how you fit those into an introduction and conclusion. The body of the pieces works off of these two sections. These series of worksheets helps students learn how to structure their work to create a well written piece.

Writing Structure Worksheets To Print:

What Did You Think of That Book? - Try to convince some one else to read a book that you like. Choose a book that you have read and write a review of it. Try to convince others to read it. Fill out the following information to help you plan your review

Do You Believe in Luck? - Is there really such a thing as luck? We give you a quick look at thoughts that surround it and then ask you opinion.

What's Your Topic? - Read each idea for a topic below. Color in the side of the scale that best describes the idea. Then, on the line below it, improve the idea by making it either more general or more specific. Classify the ideas as general or specific.

Organizing a Paragraph - Choose one of the following topic sentences and write a paragraph to develop the topic. The other sentences in your paragraph must tell about the main topic. Develop the topic that is presented to you.

Get Paid to Say What You Think - You are the movie critique. Movie critics get paid to give their opinions about new movies. Pretend that you are a movie critic for your local newspaper. Think about a movie you have seen recently. Answer the questions below to help you organize your thoughts.

What's Your Opinion? - In this exercise you will write a paragraph expressing your opinion about something that you care about.

Honing in on Your Topic - Read each idea for a topic below. Is the idea too general or too specific?

Organizing a Paragraph - Write a topic sentence. Then write a paragraph that develops the topic sentence.

Explain The Process - Organize the paragraph in a way that will allow a reader to understand, step by step, how to complete the process.

My Favorite Song - What is your favorite song? Why is it your favorite? What do you like best about it? Write a paragraph that will convince your best friend to listen to your favorite song.

Words or Pictures? - Would you rather write or draw a picture? Why? Which do you think expresses more, stories or art? Support your answer with facts or personal experience.

Persuasive Writing - Decide on a topic. Write your paragraph as if it is an advertisement, a book review, or a letter to the editor of a newspaper or magazine.

Pro | Con - Try writing a persuasive paragraph. Choose one of the controversial topics below and make an argument that is either pro (for the topic) or con (opposed to the topic).

Be Persuasive! - Try writing a persuasive paragraph. Choose one of the writing prompts below.

Buy This Book! - Write a paragraph about the best book you ever read, designed to convince your customer to buy a copy of your favorite book.

What Are the Basic Forms of Writing Structure?

All forms of writing, irrespective of their type and the level of formality, follow some specific basic structure. Without the presence of different fixed writing structures, coherent texts would never be produced in the human history. Whether you are writing a letter to a friend, a story, an application, or an answer to the question in exams, you are required to follow some specific structure that would help you convey your meaning in an understandable form to the readers. This would also help them grasp the denotative as well as the connotative meanings of whatever you write.


Here are a few basic forms of universal writing structures without the existence of which there would have been no written text ever generated in any well-known language of the world.


Categorical Structure

This is a structure that is used to describe a series of events holding an equal amount of importance. All the points are divided into paragraphs with transition words making a link between the issues or ideas being addressed. This structure is usually used in formal writings like newspaper editorials, political speeches, cover letters, etc.


Chronological Structure

This is the most used structure in story writings and other artistic texts. The writer explains the related events one after another in a proper time frame in the accurate order in which they should have actually happened in real life.


Comparative Structure

As its name indicates, this structure is used to write down the ideas with comparative aspects. Such a structure is used in argumentative essays and speeches with the writer comparing one idea to an opposing idea in order to prove a point.


Evaluative Structure

This structure is used to write about a single idea or issue. Firstly, a main idea is introduced in an introductory paragraph. Then the related elements like its advantages, disadvantages, pros, cons, etc. are elaborated further. Emails and formal applications are usually written using evaluative structure.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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