Celebrate author day

Author Day celebrates everything you have learned and created as a writer this year. You have explored four major writing types — narrative, informational, persuasive, and functional — and developed skills in planning, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing. Today you look back, celebrate your progress, and demonstrate what you know.

Unit 1 Review — Narrative Writing

• Narrative writing tells a story with characters, a setting, and a plot.
• Key features: engaging opening, rising tension, climax, resolution.
• Techniques: dialogue, sensory details, varied sentence structure, point of view.
• Personal narratives draw on real events; fiction draws on imagination.

Unit 2 Review — Informational Writing

• Informational writing explains facts, processes, or ideas clearly.
• Key features: headings, topic sentences, supporting details, accurate vocabulary.
• Uses research skills: finding sources, taking notes, summarizing in own words.
• Reports, how-to guides, and explanations are common informational forms.

Unit 3 Review — Persuasive Writing

• Persuasive writing argues a point of view and tries to change the reader's mind.
• Key features: clear thesis, supporting arguments, counter-argument and rebuttal, call to action.
• Techniques: rhetorical questions, emotive language, statistics, direct address.
• Essays, letters, advertisements, and opinion pieces are persuasive forms.

Unit 4 Review — Functional Writing

• Functional writing serves a specific real-world purpose.
• Forms: letters, emails, procedures, journals, invitations, announcements.
• Key skills: appropriate tone and register, following format conventions, clarity.
• Always consider the audience and purpose before choosing format and tone.