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Narrative Editing Skills
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Narrative Editing Skills
Read each question carefully. Choose or tick the best answers, and use the writing spaces to edit and improve narrative writing.
Notice and Improve
1.Which sentence is complete?
- Before the rain began.
- The curious tūī fluttered onto a branch.
- While Zoe searched the garden.
- Beside the muddy track.
2.What editing problem is in this sentence? “The boat rocked in the waves it drifted towards the shore.”
- It is a fragment.
- It joins two complete ideas without punctuation.
- It needs a capital letter at the beginning.
- It is already correct.
3.Tick every feature that is worth checking when editing a story.
- A capital letter at the start of each sentence
- A full stop or other suitable punctuation at the end
- Whether each sentence expresses a complete idea
- Whether the story uses precise and interesting words
4.Which sentence uses the most precise and lively words for a story?
- The bird went into the tree.
- The little bird moved somewhere.
- The silver fantail darted into the leafy pōhutukawa.
- A bird was in a tree.
Edit and Rewrite
5.Rewrite this paragraph with correct capital letters and punctuation. Keep the ideas the same: “on saturday eli followed a narrow path through the hills he heard a rustle nearby but it was only a rabbit hiding beneath a fern”
6.Join these ideas into one or two smooth sentences: “The lighthouse was tall. It stood on a rocky point. Its bright beam swept across the sea.”
7.Make this sentence more vivid by adding details about the character’s movement and the weather: “Talia crossed the field.”
Give Useful Feedback
8.Tick each comment that would help a writer improve their story.
- The way you showed the character feeling nervous was clear.
- I didn’t enjoy this. It’s bad.
- Could you add a comma after “At sunrise”?
- This part has several ideas; you could split it into shorter sentences.
9.Read this story opening: “A boy found a key it was beside the old gate the key looked strange.” Write one kind comment about something that works and one specific suggestion for improving it.
10.Explain one way editing can help a reader understand a story.
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