Camp Thrills, Chills and Spills

Portfolio Self Assessment

Name _______________________________________ 
Date _______________________________ 
 				
I gained the reader's interest by starting with a powerful first sentence. 	 	 	 	
I focused on one memorable experience and wrote about it in detail. 	 	 	 	
You can hear my personal voice when you read my writing. 	 	 	 	
My ideas are in a logical sequence so the reader can follow the events as they happened. 	 	 	 	
I have organized my ideas into paragraphs so that each paragraph is about a different event or topic. 	 	 	 	
Sometimes I have used short simple sentences to create an atmosphere of action, excitement, speed or anxiety. 	 	 	 	
I chose my verbs carefully, sometimes using a thesaurus, so that they described exactly how I moved and felt. (eg. trembled, clung) 	 	 	 	
I have used some figurative language to help the reader get clear images in their mind, (eg. alliteration, simile, onomatopoeia, personification, metaphor.) 	 	 	 	
Sometimes I have written inner monologue to record the silent talking in my head when I was anxious and tense. 	 	 	 	
My writing is in the first person, using the pronouns I or we. 	 	 	 	
I have written everything in the past tense, as I am recording what has already happened. 	 	 	 	
I have chosen some special punctuation to add effects and emphasize my feelings. (eg. dashes, ellipses, exclamation marks, parentheses) 	 	 	 	
I edited my draft writing by deleting, adding, changing and rearranging some words to make it more meaningful for the reader. 	 	 	 	
I checked my words closely, looking for spelling errors and corrected them. 	 	 	 	
I read my writing aloud, listening for any punctuation errors and corrected them. 	 	 	 	
I published my writing on the computer and inserted a digital photo. 	 	 	 	

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