tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1345950788154392982024-02-20T10:16:40.603-05:00By DegreesLearning and growing one degree at a time.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger191125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134595078815439298.post-59622626270892213592014-04-17T13:49:00.000-04:002014-04-17T13:50:55.362-04:00Book Recommendation: S Is for Story<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Esther Hershenhorn has written a wonderful alphabet book about writing. In <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1585364398/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=1585364398&link_code=as3&tag=bydeg-20">S Is for Story</a></i>, she writes in poetry and prose, she shares writing tips, she includes quotes from authors, she describes the writing process. In all, she covers a lot of ground, presenting a lovely overview of writing for students. I highly recommend this book.<br />
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Week by week, I've been adding to a Google presentation for the boys I tutor. It has slides of various types of sentences with accompanying mentor texts. Perhaps you'll find it helpful as a resource. Keep in mind that it's still in process. Revisions, additions, and tweaks are sure to come.<br />
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Prescriptive and descriptive. Lately I've run into these two adjectives describing grammarians and writing teachers. A lot. Here we'll talk about teachers, home and school.</div>
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Prescriptive teachers approach language as a list of rules students must learn. Rules such as...</div>
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These are the English teachers who haunt you in your nightmares. You shriek when you remember their weapon, the red pen, cutting and slashing through your text to find every last writing misdemeanor. </div>
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Their students likely play it safe, choosing a word they know how to spell rather than one they don't, using a simple sentence structure because they aren't sure where to place the commas in a complex one. </div>
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Meanwhile, descriptive teachers see beauty in language, how it can be shaped to create something powerful, even if that means breaking rules. They free students to experiment, to see what works (and what doesn't) in published writing and their own.</div>
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When they look at pieces students create, they notice the mistakes (and address them in future lessons), but the mistakes are not their focus. They instead appreciate the "hidden gems" (Katherine Bomer) in the piece. They 1) accept where students are, 2) remember that every student is trying to make meaning, and 3) look for what's brilliant, bold, brave, and beautiful.*</div>
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They understand that writing is a process grounded in strong ideas on a page (fluency) that can be later revised (clarity), and eventually tweaked to look conventional to readers (correctness).</div>
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Which kind of teacher are you?</div>
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I know I want to be a descriptive teacher who parks my pen as I read a student's piece the first time, even as it beckons me to fix and correct. I want to intentionally mine for treasures, to encourage my students, sharing with them what I discover, then sit back and watch what happens.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">*Thank you to Katherine Bomer who presented these points at an LVWP seminar I attended over the weekend.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134595078815439298.post-75309991945861848192014-03-27T13:48:00.000-04:002014-03-27T13:48:06.407-04:00Tutorial: A Writing Portfolder (Assignments, Slideshows, and Step-by-Step Instructions Included!)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's finished! The portfolder tutorial with eleven mini-books is ready for you to try with your students. You can find it <a href="http://growingbydegrees.blogspot.com/2013/12/making-writing-portfolder-tutorial_13.html">here</a>.</div>
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To challenge older writers, suggest they write their riddle as a paragraph, varying the way they begin each sentence. The goal is to keep the riddle from sounding "listy."Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134595078815439298.post-4400420147855244502014-03-21T12:33:00.001-04:002014-03-23T18:15:18.992-04:00Wonder<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In the last several weeks, I've seen the cover in pins and posts, its unique design burrowing into my memory. Finally, I looked for it. The only copy available, digital. I'd rather turn the pages of a book, but the touch pad accomplished the same thing, getting me from the first page to the last in a day. Now more than the cover has burrowed: the story also is lodged in my mind.<br />
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The book is <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375869026/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=0375869026&link_code=as3&tag=bydeg-20">Wonder </a></i>by R. J. Palacio.<br />
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Then investigate closer still. Below I show you the <i>beginnings</i> of my closer investigation into the text. It's amazing what you see when you slow down and study the author's craft. When students do the same, their minds are attentive to new possibilities they can try in their writing. Find a blank chart <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/11p7CE5WWqJlo58XPDtjiKpaIXT3p8LCx5GI7LkaXTws/edit?usp=sharing">here</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">2. Lots of fragments</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Twenty-seven
since I was born.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 74.3pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-line-height-alt: 0pt; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Or maybe I
should say angelic.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 74.3pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-line-height-alt: 0pt; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“A little
peephole.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">3. Lots of compound sentences</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“The bigger
ones happened before I was even four years old, so I don’t remember those.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 72.65pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-line-height-alt: 0pt; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“The last
surgery I had was eight months ago, and I probably won’t have to have any
more for another couple of years.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 72.65pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-line-height-alt: 0pt; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“She once
tried to draw me a Darth Vader, but it ended up looking like some weird
mushroom-shaped robot.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">4. AAAWWUBBIS sentences</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Since I’ve
never been to a real school before, I am pretty much totally and completely
petrified.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 72.65pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-line-height-alt: 0pt; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;">
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“When I came
out of Mom’s stomach, she said the whole room got very quiet.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">5. Repetition</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“So I’ve
gotten used to not complaining, and I’ve gotten used to not bothering Mom and
Dad with little stuff. I’ve gotten used to figuring things out on my own: how
to put toys together, how to organize my life so I don’t miss friends’
birthday parties, how to stay on top of my schoolwork so I never fall behind
in class.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“My worst
day, worst fall, worst headache, worst bruise, worst cramp, worst mean thing
anyone could say has always been nothing compared to what August has gone
through.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 72.65pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-line-height-alt: 0pt; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -.25in;">
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I wish I
could ask him this stuff. I wish he would tell me how he feels.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 72.65pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-line-height-alt: 0pt; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -.25in;">
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“We need to
let him, help him, make him grow up.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">6. An extended metaphor</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“August is the Sun. Me and Mom and Dad are planets
orbiting the Sun. The rest of our family and friends are asteroids and comets
floating around the planets and orbiting the Sun. The only celestial body
that doesn’t orbit August the Sun is Daisy the dog, and that’s only because
to her little doggy eyes August’s face doesn’t look very different from any
other human’s face.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">7. Similes</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“To Daisy,
all our faces look alike, as flat and pale as the moon.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 72.65pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-line-height-alt: 0pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -.25in;">
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“His head is
pinched in on the sides where the ears should be, like someone used giant
pliers and crushed the middle part of his face.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 72.65pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-line-height-alt: 0pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -.25in;">
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Out of all
my features, my ears are the ones I hate the most. They are like tiny closed
fists on the sides of my face.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">8.
The use of the colon <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Mom
remembers exactly what the nurse whispered in her ear when the doctor told
her I probably wouldn’t live through the night: “Everyone born of God
overcometh the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 72.65pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-line-height-alt: 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo6; text-indent: -.25in;">
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There’s one
shot of me at my third birthday: Dad’s right behind me while Mom’s holding
the cake with three lit candles, and in back of us are Tata and Poppa….”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 72.65pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-line-height-alt: 0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; text-indent: -.25in;">
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“And on the
other side of the peephole, there were two Augusts: the one I saw blindly,
and the one other people saw.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 72.65pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-line-height-alt: 0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; text-indent: -.25in;">
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“And then
Grans told me she had a secret to tell me: she loved me more than anyone else
in the world.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">9.
The writing has a conversational, kid-sounding tone.<br />
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Me and
Christopher were looking for snacks in the kitchen…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 72.65pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-line-height-alt: 0pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo7; text-indent: -.25in;">
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Like, she’d
bring Mom some ice chips, and then fart.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“And he was
like, ‘No problem!’”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">10.
The pattern of three<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“This school
was very different. It was smaller. It smelled like a hospital.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I’d just get
mad. Mad when they stared. Mad when they looked away.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“But it’s
hard. It’s hard not to sneak a second look. It’s hard to act normal when you
see him.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Horrified.
Sickened. Scared.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">11.
Participles<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“What I
remember the most from the day Grans died is Mom literally crumpling to the
floor in slow, heaving sobs, holding her stomach like someone had just
punched her.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 72.65pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-line-height-alt: 0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo8; text-indent: -.25in;">
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Not just the
front rows, but the whole audience suddenly got up on their feet, whooping,
hollering, clapping like crazy.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">This sentence has five
words. This is five words too. Five word sentences are fine. But several
together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting
boring. The sound of it drones. It’s like a stuck record. The ear demands some
variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence length and I create music. Music. The
writing sings. It has a pleasant rhythm, a lilt, a harmony. I use short
sentences. And I use sentences of medium length. And sometimes when I am
certain the reader is rested I will engage him with a sentence of considerable
length, a sentence that burns with energy and builds with all the impetus of a
crescendo, the roll of the drums, the crash of the symbols, and sounds that say
listen to this, it is important.<span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">~<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Make Your Words Work</i>, Gary Provost, 55</span></span> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I love that paragraph, and I love to use it to show
students what changing the lengths of sentences (<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span>or not) <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span>accomplishes.</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Provost goes on. He writes
one paragraph with long sentences, then another with short sentences. Both
sound monotonous. The third one he writes with varying sentence lengths—short,
medium, and long—to satisfy the reader.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Try this with your children.</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Read aloud Provost’s paragraph a couple of
times. Really listen to the monotony at the beginning and the music at the end.
Discuss with your students what they hear and observe.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Invite your children to write a paragraph
three times. The first time they will stuff it with short sentences, the second
time they will fill it with long sentences, and the third time they will
carefully craft a variety of sentences, trying to achieve a rhythm that
satisfies. </span></span><br />
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Ask your children to read their paragraphs
aloud, so they can hear the rhythm they have (or haven’t) created. </span></span><br />
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Once children are ready to write independently, it can be challenging to know how to guide them. In this tutorial, children's imaginations will be stirred as they complete a variety of assignments, many of them inspired by published writing. Each piece will begin as a draft on notebook paper (or a computer screen) and end as a typed mini-book which will be displayed on a portfolder shell to be read and enjoyed for years to come.<br />
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See the happy faces of kids who have made them before?<br />
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Before we begin, I'd like you to remember a few things.<br />
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First, it's important for kids to begin with a blank screen or sheet of paper so they are free to engage in the writing process. If you give them the flaps, folds, or mini-books for the portfolder too soon, you will either 1) not see the child's best writing or 2) end up with eraser smudges or tears. Save the mini-books for the final copies!<br />
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Similarly, stress the <a href="http://growingbydegrees.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Process">process of writing</a> in these assignments. The first draft is likely not the best you can get from your students.<br />
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To make the final product extra special, I recommend that students' work be typed, cut (preferably with a paper cutter), and glued (with a glue stick) onto the mini-books.<br />
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Think of my ideas as suggestions. If you deviate from them because you or your children have a better idea, I'll never know. Similarly, if you want to change the order of the mini-books, do it. The goal is to propel your children to write, to end up with a project that satisfies them. If that is accomplished, celebrate!<br />
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Writing doesn't have to be laborious or tedious. Have fun!<br />
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Oh, and if anything is unclear, PLEASE let me know.<br />
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Now I think we're ready to begin.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Gather Supplies</b></span><br />
The basic supplies are listed <a href="http://growingbydegrees.blogspot.com/2013/08/portfolder-checklist.html">here</a> for you.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Make a Portfolder Shell</b></span><br />
Follow Steps 1-3 <a href="http://www.canby.com/hockmanchupp/portfolder_instr.html">here</a> to make a single portfolder.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Mini-Book #1: <a href="http://growingbydegrees.blogspot.com/2013/11/an-acrostic-poem.html">Acrostic Name Poem</a></b></span><br />
Find the instructions for writing the acrostic poem <a href="http://growingbydegrees.blogspot.com/2013/11/an-acrostic-poem.html">here</a>.<br />
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When the acrostic is finished, follow these instructions to make a flapbook for the portfolder. (Press the <i>i </i>to see the instructions.)<br />
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As the mini-books are completed, store them in a large zip-top bag to protect them. The flapbook is the bag's first resident! We will wait until the projects are all collected in the bag before we begin laying them out and pasting them to the portfolder.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Mini-Book #2: <a href="http://growingbydegrees.blogspot.com/2013/11/i-know-what-i-like-pattern-to-follow.html">I Know What I Like</a></b></span><br />
Look <a href="http://growingbydegrees.blogspot.com/2013/11/i-know-what-i-like-pattern-to-follow.html">here</a> for this writing assignment based on a picture book by Norma Simon. Then follow the slideshow below to make a circle book. (Press the <i>i</i> to see the instructions.)<br />
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Plop the finished book in the plastic bag to join the acrostic flapbook. Now the bag has two cozy residents!<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Mini-Books # 3 and #4: <a href="http://growingbydegrees.blogspot.com/2013/12/writing-metaphors.html">Metaphors</a></b></span><br />
Students will make two shutterfold books of metaphors, following the post <a href="http://growingbydegrees.blogspot.com/2013/12/writing-metaphors.html">here</a>. For each word they choose, ask them to write a list of comparisons, developing five of them with sensory details. When they are finalized, one metaphor can be put on the outside cover, adjacent to the title. The other four can be pasted in each of the sections on the inside of the mini-book. Do this for two mini-books.<br />
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When the metaphors are ready, follow these instructions to make two shutterfold books for the portfolder. (Press the <i>i </i>to see the instructions.)<br />
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Put the mini-books in the storage bag. They're adding up!<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Mini-Book #5: <a href="http://growingbydegrees.blogspot.com/2013/12/important-things.html">Important Things</a></b></span><br />
Students will make a book of three to six important things, following the instructions <a href="http://growingbydegrees.blogspot.com/2013/12/important-things.html">here</a>.<br />
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The important things will go in a bound book. Watch the slideshow to see how to make it.<br />
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Arrange the paragraphs on the pages. Illustrate them or include photos. Put a title on the front cover. <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Voil</span><span class="Latn headword" lang="en" style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" xml:lang="en">à</span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">. </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">You have another book to add to the bag.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Mini-Book #6: <a href="http://growingbydegrees.blogspot.com/2014/01/writing-in-threes.html">Writing in Threes</a></b></span><br />
The next mini-book is a filmstrip book. Follow the instructions for writing in threes <a href="http://growingbydegrees.blogspot.com/2014/01/writing-in-threes.html">here</a>.<br />
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Students will have three pages in their filmstrip book, one for each of their important things. On the frames of the filmstrip piece, they will make illustrations which correspond to the pages of their mini-book. When the reader is reading page one, the filmstrip piece will be pulled to the right to allow the first picture to be viewed in the frame. This piece will be pulled to the left to allow the second picture to be viewed when the reader is ready for page 2. It will be pulled completely to the left when the reader is ready for page 3.<br />
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When the filmstrip book is complete, add it to the zip-top bag.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Mini-Book #7: <a href="http://growingbydegrees.blogspot.com/2014/01/circular-stories.html">Circular Story</a></b></span><br />
Next up is a circular story, modeled after Laura Numeroff's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0545659981/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=0545659981&link_code=as3&tag=bydeg-20">If You Give...</a> books. You can find the lesson <a href="http://growingbydegrees.blogspot.com/2014/01/circular-stories.html">here</a>.<br />
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Follow the instructions below to make a layered book for the portfolder. (Press the <i>i </i>to see the instructions.)<br />
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Look at that growing bag! Pull out the collection of books and admire each one.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Mini-Book #8: <a href="http://growingbydegrees.blogspot.com/2014/02/diary-of-critter.html">Diary of a Critter</a></b></span><br />
It is now time for students to write diaries...with a twist. They will not be writing about their lives but instead about the life of a critter, maybe a grasshopper or a ladybug or whatever suits their fancy. You can find the lesson <a href="http://growingbydegrees.blogspot.com/2014/02/diary-of-critter.html">here</a>. The number of entries is up to you, but I recommend at least ten.<br />
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You won't need a slideshow to make this super easy mini-book. Just cut squares from white or colored copy paper (approximately 5" x 5"), enough for the diary entries, the front cover, and the back cover. So, if your student has ten entries, the book will have twelve pages. Staple on the left and, as promised, you have a super easy book.<br />
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Once the diary is completed, it can also be placed in the bag.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Mini-Book #9: <a href="http://growingbydegrees.blogspot.com/2014/02/two-stories-one-pattern.html">Two Stories, One Pattern</a></span></b><br />
For this assignment, we're going to toss in some basic literary analysis. Go <a href="http://growingbydegrees.blogspot.com/2014/02/two-stories-one-pattern.html">here</a> to find the books and the story mapping sheet to begin the process.<br />
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You can make this book in three easy steps. (Press the <i>i </i>to see the instructions.)<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Mini-Book #10: <a href="http://growingbydegrees.blogspot.com/2014/02/a-poem-of-excuses.html">Excuses, Excuses</a></span></b><br />
Do you hear a lot of excuses when it's time to write? Well, don't let all that griping and grumbling go to waste. Invite your kids to use their best excuses in a poem explained <a href="http://growingbydegrees.blogspot.com/2014/02/a-poem-of-excuses.html">here</a>.<br />
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Place both poems--the original and your student's--in an accordion-fold book, explained below. To print the poem, right-click the poem (<a href="http://growingbydegrees.blogspot.com/2014/02/a-poem-of-excuses.html">here</a>), paste it into a Word document, and edit it as you wish.<br />
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When it's ready, add it to the bag. We're almost finished making and collecting mini-books.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Mini-Book #11: <a href="http://growingbydegrees.blogspot.com/2014/03/how-to-teach-how-to-writing.html">How-to Writing</a></span></b><br />
Follow the lesson <a href="http://growingbydegrees.blogspot.com/2014/03/how-to-teach-how-to-writing.html">here</a>--the simple or extended version--for a how-to writing assignment.<br />
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When the text is revised and edited, display it in a top tab book. If there are four steps, place one step on each tab/page. If there are eight steps, place two steps on each tab/page.<br />
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Finally, we have enough projects to fill a single portfolder. (Of course, if you want to add more writing projects, you can always add extensions to your portfolder. It's not complicated!)<br />
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To plan the layout of the portfolder, have students spread out (and admire) the mini-books. Since the filmstrip book and the top tab book are the largest of the mini-books, they will need to go in the main section--the window--of the portfolder. Anchor them with paperclips.<br />
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The rest of the mini-books will fit on the fronts and backs of the flaps--or shutters.Students can tinker with the arrangement until it is pleasing to the eye, using paperclips to hold the books in place. No pasting yet!<br />
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If any of the mini-books are lacking titles, take care of that before pasting.<br />
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Once students are sure the mini-books are ready and they are happy with the arrangement, they can get a glue stick and carefully paste the mini-books to the portfolder, aligning them carefully.<br />
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(Optional): Give students stickers and markers to decorate the white spaces of the portfolder.<br />
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And there you have it: a finished portfolder proudly displaying eleven pieces of student writing.</div>
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<u>Who</u>: Elementary-aged students</div>
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<u>What</u>: Students practice procedural writing, an exercise that will make them think carefully and choose words purposefully. </div>
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You can keep it easy and give students a <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzxeyBaSmufRNUZJUDEtb2loVnM/edit?usp=sharing">pre-writing sheet </a>to follow. (I wrote the handout for kids who will make a top tab book for their <a href="http://growingbydegrees.blogspot.com/2013/12/making-writing-portfolder-tutorial_13.html">portfolder</a>. If your students aren't making one, it doesn't matter how many steps they write.)<br />
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Or you can extend the lesson and choose from the following activities.<br />
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1. Watch the Sesame Street video to see what can happen when our instructions are vague. Nothing educational here...just fun.<br />
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2. Read mentor texts, such as <a href="http://www.wikihow.com/Blow-a-Bubble-with-Bubblegum">How to Blow a Bubblegum Bubble</a> or <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679880836/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=0679880836&link_code=as3&tag=bydeg-20">How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World</a> or <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0547807457/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=0547807457&link_code=as3&tag=bydeg-20">Apple Cake: A Recipe for Love</a> or <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0761458050/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=0761458050&link_code=as3&tag=bydeg-20">How to Teach a Slug to Read</a>. Browse the juvenile section at the library to find more options.<br />
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3. If you have more than one student, invite them to choose a scenario from the list below (or one of their own). Ask Student #1 to verbally give Student #2 step-by-step instructions to accomplish the task, stopping after each step to allow Student #2 to dramatize it. To avoid misunderstandings, Student #1 will likely need to tweak the instructions. Change roles, allowing Student #2 to give instructions. (If you have one student, you can be Student #2.)<br />
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4. Do a science experiment to practice procedural writing. When I taught at a homeschooling co-op, I performed the following experiment. It caught the students' attention and produced lively writing.<br />
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Put water into a clear 35-mm plastic film canister, filling about one-third of it. Set the canister on a tray in a place where you don't mind a bit of a mess. Drop half of an Alka-Seltzer tablet into the water, close the lid tightly, and get out of the way. Warning: expect an explosion. ~from <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0764111426/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=0764111426&link_code=as3&tag=bydeg-20">Flash! Bang! Pop! Fizz!</a></i> by Janet Parks Chahrour, 13.</blockquote>
5. Gather ideas on a <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzxeyBaSmufRNUZJUDEtb2loVnM/edit?usp=sharing">pre-writing sheet</a>.<br />
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Will I write a paragraph or a longer piece?<br />
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What will be the style of my piece? Will I stick to the facts? Will I use a creative <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679880836/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=0679880836&link_code=as3&tag=bydeg-20">setting</a> or <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0761458050/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=0761458050&link_code=as3&tag=bydeg-20">character</a>?</div>
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Will I write in first, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679880836/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=0679880836&link_code=as3&tag=bydeg-20">second</a>, or <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0761458050/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=0761458050&link_code=as3&tag=bydeg-20">third person</a>?</div>
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How will I introduce my piece? Will I write a question, make a statement, tell a little story, or do something else? Will I write a sentence, a paragraph, or something in between?</div>
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Will my instructions be simple, or will they be specific, descriptive, and detailed?<br />
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Will I number my steps, or will I use transitional words and phrases to move the steps fluidly from one to the next (to begin, first, next, after, then, at the same time, meanwhile, finally, at last...). </div>
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How will I close my piece?<br />
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<u>A Paragraph by a Young Student</u></blockquote>
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Pulling your teeth hurts, but at least you get money for them. First you fetch a piece of string and tie one end of the string around the doorknob. Next you tie the other end of the string around your tooth. Then you slam the door. Now your tooth is hanging from the door by a piece of string. Pulling your teeth hurts, but if you get a dollar for each one ($20 in all) who cares about the pain!</blockquote>
I'd love to see the topics your students choose. Please share them in the comments.<br />
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English teachers are famous for advising, "Show; don't tell!" But what does that mean?<br />
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I'll show you with examples from Harry Noden's <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0325041741/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=0325041741&link_code=as3&tag=bydeg-20">Image Grammar</a> (29).</i><br />
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<b>Telling</b>: Maxine is nervous.<br />
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<b>Showing</b>: Maxine glances at the midnight moon shadows from one side of the dark alleyway to the other, biting her nails as rivulets of perspiration soak her eyebrows.<br />
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<b>Telling</b>: She loved her daughter.<br />
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<b>Showing</b>: She kissed three-year-old Carrie softly on the cheek and tucked in the covers as Carrie slept.<br />
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Notice the word choices--glances, alleyway, biting, rivulets of perspiration, soak, kissed, tucked. Notice the pictures of nervousness and love painted without a single mention of either word.<br />
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Look at your students' writing. What do they tend to do--tell or show? If they lean to the telling side, chances are their writing is general, bland, ho-hum. They're content to write, "It was ________!" (Fill in the blank with fun, cool, awesome, boring, or just about any other adjective.) Encourage them to include details and strong verbs, giving the reader a concrete picture. Done well, the reader will be able to infer whatever it is the writer is trying to show.<br />
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Recently, Frog and Toad helped us <a href="http://growingbydegrees.blogspot.com/2014/02/frog-and-toad-teach-punctuation.html">punctuate dialogue</a> and <a href="http://growingbydegrees.blogspot.com/2014/02/frog-and-toad-synonyms.html">experiment with synonyms</a>. Now, for one last lesson, they're lending us some telling sentences to transform.<br />
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From <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0064440206/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=0064440206&link_code=as3&tag=bydeg-20">Frog and Toad Are Friends</a>:</i><br />
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One <u>day</u> in <u>summer</u> Frog was <u>not feeling well</u>.</blockquote>
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Toad <u>thought and thought</u>.</blockquote>
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Toad was getting <u>colder and colder</u>.</blockquote>
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Frog and Toad sat out on the porch, <u>feeling sad</u> together.</blockquote>
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They sat there, <u>feeling happy</u> together.</blockquote>
Ask students to write new sentences that do not directly mention the underlined words. For instance, how can they describe a day in summer without saying the word <i>day</i> or <i>summer</i>? How can they portray <i>not feeling well</i> without writing those words? To test their success, they can read their sentence(s) to someone. Can the person guess the gist of the original sentence(s)?<br />
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That accomplished, have students add pizzazz to an old writing piece with good old-fashioned showing. It'll make English teachers around the world smile, leap, and dance. In other words, they'll be happy!<br />
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As always, share your students' best examples in the comments.<br />
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<li>For more practice, feel free to use the sheet <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cjQprxIpBf7c4pG-vdkSErqX0bY7oRPDS1skmFjz8Gw/edit?usp=sharing">here</a>.</li>
<li>For another showing vs. telling lesson, see <a href="http://growingbydegrees.blogspot.com/2013/07/mr-twits-beard.html">this one</a> based on Roald Dahl's Mr. Twit.</li>
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Verlyn Klinkenborg shared the following exercise in <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0078XCQMW/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=B0078XCQMW&link_code=as3&tag=bydeg-20">Several Short Sentences about Writing</a> </i>(60).<br />
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Copy or print out a couple of pages by an author whose work you like....<br />
Gather some colored pens or pencils.<br />
Choose one color and circle all the nouns.<br />
Pause to consider them.<br />
Then choose a different color and circle all the verbs.<br />
Pause again.<br />
Ditto the articles, adverbs, adjectives, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections.<br />
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There shouldn't be.<br />
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Please reread that last sentence--the purpose statement--especially after "and."<br />
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Make this exercise less about stubbornly trying to identify every last word and more about appreciating the choices the author makes with words. In fact, feel free to nix parts of speech from the list if some of them are new or burdensome to your student. The goal is to pause, observe, enjoy...and eventually imitate.<br />
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I wanted to attempt this exercise myself, so I casually paged through several chapter books to find a paragraph. I soon realized it wouldn't be as easy as it sounds and decided to drop my post.<br />
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This is *not* easy. When I moved onto a new color and a new part of speech, I would find ones I missed from the last color. It forced me to consider and reconsider words. At first, I followed instructions and paused to study words. Then I got swept away by the pursuit and forgot to pause. When I was finished, uncircled words remained.<br />
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The take-away? Do this yourself before requiring it of your children! Or at least do it alongside them. And don't forget to pause.<br />
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<a href="http://growingbydegrees.blogspot.com/2014/02/frog-and-toad-teach-punctuation.html">Last week</a> we used Arnold Lobel's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0064440206/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=0064440206&link_code=as3&tag=bydeg-20"><i>Frog and Toad Are Friends</i> </a>to take a closer look at punctuating dialogue. This week, let's use it to experiment with synonyms.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Frog ran up the path to Toad's house.</span></blockquote>
That's the first sentence of the first chapter.<br />
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Let's replace a few of the words and observe the shades of meaning.<br />
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<li>Frog <u>dashed</u> up the <u>sidewalk</u> to Toad's <u>cottage</u>.</li>
<li>Frog <u>scurried</u> up the <u>trail</u> to Toad's <u>cabin</u>.</li>
<li>Frog <u>scampered</u> up the <u>walkway</u> to Toad's <u>abode</u>.</li>
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How about another one?<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">He knocked on the front door.</span></blockquote>
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<li>He <u>banged</u> on the front door.</li>
<li>He <u>tapped</u> on the front door.</li>
<li>He <u>rapped</u> on the front door.</li>
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With your students, start with <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0064440206/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=0064440206&link_code=as3&tag=bydeg-20">Frog and Toad Are Friends</a></i> or another easy reader. Find sentences to remodel several times, giving your kids the chance to pull from the deep well of vocabulary in their heads. If necessary, dip into a thesaurus. Compare the new sentences with the original one. What effect do the new words have on the sentence? Which sentence gives the clearest image?<br />
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For an added challenge, retell a chapter from the book, replacing as many words as possible.<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" mozallowfullscreen="" src="//player.vimeo.com/video/65762300?portrait=0&color=c9ff23" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="500"></iframe> <a href="http://vimeo.com/65762300">Dr. Ben Carson Talks About His Mom (Mother's Day)</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/fccarlington">Faith Christian Center</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</div>
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This is the same story in a different setting.<br />
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Typically, when we use adjectives, we place them before the noun. </div>
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"I respond, but really I'm thinking about Plutarch showing off his <u>pretty</u>, <u>one-of-a-kind</u> watch to me" (Suzanne Collins, <i>Catching Fire</i>, 83).</blockquote>
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Is it possible to place them after the noun?<br />
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In Harry Noden's <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0325041741/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=0325041741&link_code=as3&tag=bydeg-20">Image Grammar</a></i>, he talks about five brushstrokes to add power to writing. One of them is Adjectives out of Order, a tool writers use to vary the rhythm of their sentences and to give emphasis to the adjectives.<br />
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When writers shift adjectives behind the noun, they make possible a third adjective. So, instead of writing, "The elderly, tired, unsure woman shuffled to the counter," they write, "The elderly woman, tired and unsure, shuffled to the counter."<br />
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Notice in the examples below that commas surround the adjectives, unless they are at the end of the sentence in which case they are preceded by a comma.<br />
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Khaled Hosseini uses Adjectives out of Order often.<br />
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"I sat in the back row, <u>carsick and dizzy</u>, sandwiched between the seven-year-old twins who kept reaching over my lap to slap at each other" (Khaled Hosseini, <i>The Kite Runner</i>, 83).</blockquote>
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"The wind, <u>soft and cold</u>, clicked through tree branches and stirred the bushes that sprinkled the slope" (Khaled Hosseini, <i>The Kite Runner</i>, 112).</blockquote>
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"Words were exchanged, <u>brief and hushed</u>" (Khaled Hosseini, <i>The Kite Runner</i>, 114).</blockquote>
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"He'd sit at the kitchen table with his flyswatter, watch the flies darting from wall to wall, buzzing here, buzzing there, <u>harried and rushed</u>" (Khaled Hosseini, <i>The Kite Runner</i>, 366).</blockquote>
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"His hair, <u>short and brown</u>, stood on his scalp like needles in a pincushion" (Khaled Hosseini, <i>A Thousand Splendid Suns</i>, 183). </blockquote>
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"Classy prose does not leap, <u>complete and fully formed</u>, from anyone's typewriter or computer or quill pen" (Patricia T. O'Conner, <i>Words Fail Me</i>, 38).</blockquote>
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"She was very tall for a woman, <u>slender and graceful</u>, and moved slowly down the gangplank with the stately self-consciousness which happened to be the fashionable gait for a lady at the moment" (Esther Forbes, <i>Johnny Tremain</i>, 54). </blockquote>
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"The April sun, <u>weak but determined</u>, shone through a castle window and from there squeezed itself through a small hole in the wall and placed one golden finger on the little mouse" (Kate DiCamillo, <i>The Tale of Despereaux</i>, 13). </blockquote>
<br />If you'd like your students to focus on Adjectives out of Order, you'll find a thorough resource <a href="http://www.mooreschools.com/cms/lib/OK01000367/Centricity/Domain/1344/Adjectives_lesson_e.pdf">here</a>.<br />
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For more mentor texts, go <a href="http://growingbydegrees.blogspot.com/2013/05/mentor-texts-what-are-they.html">here</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134595078815439298.post-68555978230365883552014-02-19T10:43:00.000-05:002014-02-20T11:43:01.282-05:00Two Stories, One Pattern<div class="MsoNormal">
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<u>What</u>: After analyzing the parts of a story in two similar picture books, students write their own story with the same pattern.</div>
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1. If necessary, review the parts of a story, specifically character, setting, problem (or conflict), and plot. (These are not complicated stories, so the discussion can be brief and basic.)</div>
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6. Now it's time for students to brainstorm a story of their own. Invite them to begin mapping their story in the third column.</div>
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7. Write, <a href="http://growingbydegrees.blogspot.com/2013/12/revising.html">revise</a>, and <a href="http://growingbydegrees.blogspot.com/2013/12/editing.html">edit</a> the story, preparing it to <a href="http://growingbydegrees.blogspot.com/2013/12/publishing.html">share with others</a>.<br />
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How do you teach your students the rules associated with punctuating dialogue?<br />
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I mean, are they important to know? Can we ignore them?<br />
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I have <i>The Jesus Storybook Bible</i> within reach. Let's see how dialogue looks without punctuation. Hang on!<br />
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Saul! Saul! said the loud voice. Why are you fighting me? Lord? Saul answered who are you? I am Jesus said the voice. When you hurt my friends, you are hurting me, too. Saul's whole body trembled. Go to the city Jesus said I'll tell you what to do.</blockquote>
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That obviously won't work. We need the rules for clarity.<br />
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But how do we teach them without crushing our students with tedium?<br />
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What about using <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0064440206/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=0064440206&link_code=as3&tag=bydeg-20">Frog and Toad Are Friends</a>, </i>an easy reader by Arnold Lobel?<br />
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That sounds random, I know. The idea developed when I read that a professor teaches punctuation with Lobel's book. I don't know what his or her method is; I don't know the age group the professor teaches. An Internet search produced nothing. But the notion intrigued me. I borrowed a copy of the book from my library to see if I could get into the mind of that professor.<br />
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The first thing I noticed was the dialogue. I looked at Frog's and Toad's lines, trying to find a pattern in their structure.<br />
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I found six categories.<br />
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<u><i>Category 1: Said</i> first</u><br />
Toad said<span style="color: #4c1130;">,</span> <span style="color: #4c1130;">"</span><span style="color: #4c1130;">F</span>rog, you are looking quite green<span style="color: #4c1130;">."</span><br />
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<u><i>Category 2: Said</i> last</u><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">"</span>Today you look very green even for a frog<span style="color: #4c1130;">,"</span> <span style="color: #4c1130;">s</span>aid Toad<span style="color: #4c1130;">.</span><br />
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<u><i>Category 3: Said</i> in the Middle of a Sentence</u><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">"</span>Then you get out of bed and let me get into it<span style="color: #4c1130;">,"</span> said Toad<span style="color: #4c1130;">,</span> <span style="color: #4c1130;">"</span><span style="color: #4c1130;">b</span>ecause now I feel terrible<span style="color: #4c1130;">.</span><span style="color: #4c1130;">"</span><br />
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<u><i>Category 4: Said </i>in the Middle of Two Sentences</u><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">"</span>Don't worry<span style="color: #4c1130;">,"</span> said Frog. <span style="color: #4c1130;">"</span><span style="color: #4c1130;">W</span>e will go back to all the places where we walked. We will soon find your button<span style="color: #4c1130;">.</span><span style="color: #4c1130;">"</span><br />
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<u>Category 5: An Exclamation</u><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">"</span>Here is your button<span style="color: #4c1130;">!"</span> <span style="color: #4c1130;">c</span>ried Frog<span style="color: #4c1130;">.</span><br />
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<u>Category 6: A Question</u><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">"</span>Does Toad really look funny in his bathing suit<span style="color: #4c1130;">?"</span> <span style="color: #4c1130;">t</span>hey asked<span style="color: #4c1130;">.</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><br /></span>With those categories, I designed an assignment for students.<br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><br /></span><span style="color: #4c1130;"><b>My objectives:</b></span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #4c1130;">Students will connect </span><span style="color: #4c1130;">rules to real reading.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #4c1130;">Students will stretch their observation skills as they search for and evaluate the various categories of dialogue.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #4c1130;">Students will apply what they learn to their own sentences.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #4c1130;">As a bonus, students will write rules they observe.</span></li>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">You can treat the papers as a worksheet, or you can cut around the six rectangles and paste them in a Writer's Reference notebook.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/absolutephrase.htm">Absolutes</a> add to a sentence, spicing it with specific and vivid description. In Harry Noden's words, absolutes "add to the action of an image" (<i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0325041741/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=0325041741&link_code=as3&tag=bydeg-20">Image Grammar</a></i> 6). To identify them, look for nouns paired with <a href="http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/participlephrase.htm">participles</a>. (Notice the bold pairs in the examples below.)<br />
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Khaled Hosseini uses absolutes often in his captivating prose.<br />
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"We would sit across from each other on a pair of high branches, <u>our naked <b>feet dangling</b></u>, <u>our trouser <b>pockets filled</b> with dried mulberries and walnuts</u>" (Khaled Hosseini, <i>The Kite Runner</i>, 3).</blockquote>
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"I can still see Hassan up on that tree, <b><u>sunlight flickerin</u>g</b><u> through the leaves</u> on his almost perfectly round face..." (Khaled Hosseini, <i>The Kite Runner</i>, 3). </blockquote>
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"He was standing by the front door, dressed in white, <u><b>hands tucked</b> under his armpits</u>, <u><b>breath puffing</b> from his mouth</u>" (Khaled Hosseini, <i>The Kite Runner</i>, 44). </blockquote>
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"Then the heavens opened, <u>the <b>rain pouring</b> down</u>, <u>the <b>lightning flashing</b></u>, and they rushed for the cover of the stables, leaving alone on his side near the pile of bricks, <u>the <b>rain running</b> off his hide</u>, dead an hour and a quarter after his first start, Air Lift, son of Bold Venture, full brother of Assault" (W. C. Heinz, <a href="http://www.bloodhorse.com/pdf/DeathofaRacehorse_Heinz.pdf">"Death of a Racehorse"</a>).</blockquote>
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For more mentor texts, go <a href="http://growingbydegrees.blogspot.com/2013/05/mentor-texts-what-are-they.html">here</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134595078815439298.post-60150682859602137312014-02-14T14:33:00.000-05:002014-02-18T10:00:00.309-05:00An Olympic Project<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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With a week down and a week to go in the Sochi Olympic Games, are you ready for your kids to research and write about them?<br />
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When the Games were in China, I certainly was. To justify the many hours in the basement watching TV, I asked my girls to work together on an alphabet project. Their task was to think of a relevant topic for each letter of the alphabet, divvy up the letters, research and write short pieces about their topics, and display the finished pieces on a tri-fold display board.<br />
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My passive observers suddenly became active learners. They were required to think, observe, research, write and revise, cooperate, and display their learning creatively.<br />
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To help you begin, I've listed the topics my girls chose to highlight. The words in bold are applicable for any Olympic Games.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A</span> rchery: a brief explanation of the sport and some of the winners in 2008<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">B</span> ird's Nest Stadium: information about the size and cost of the stadium, and the time it took to construct it; a picture of the stadium<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">C</span> eremonies</b>: a description of the opening ceremony<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">D</span> ecathlon: an outline of the two days of events<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">E </span>questrian: a brief explanation of the sport<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">F</span> encing: bullet points explaining the event as well as a picture of the gold medalist<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">G</span> ymnastics: descriptions of four events<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">H</span> istory:</b> a short story of a fictional man who won the first games in 776 BC<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">I </span>nspiring story:</b> a true story highlighting the humility of one of the athletes during competition<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">J</span> ohnson, Shawn: a short biography of this admired gymnast<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">K</span> ey competitors:</b> short biographies of favorite competitors in the Games<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">L</span> ocation:</b> interesting information about China, including language, currency, time difference, population, famous landmarks, and popular religions<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">N</span> ow and then: </b>a Venn diagram comparing the original and 2008 Olympic Games<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">O</span> ath:</b> the oaths that the competitors and judges must pledge<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">P</span> helps, Michael: a short biography of this accomplished swimmer<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Q</span> ualification:</b> the process athletes go through to compete in the Olympics<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">R</span> ings:</b> a drawing of the Olympic Rings<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">S</span> ponsors:</b> two descriptions of commercials<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">T</span> riathlon: a brief explanation of the event<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">U</span> nderwater sports: a bulleted list of interesting information<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">V</span> ictories:</b> the medal count for the top three countries<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">W</span> ater cube: a brief introduction to the location where the water sports occurred<br />
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<b>e<span style="font-size: large;">X</span> tra special Olympics:</b> a brief introduction to the Special Olympics, including its beginnings<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Y </span>ip yip hooray:</b> a sentence telling how many world records and how many Olympic records were broken<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Z</span> illions of fans:</b> quotes from friends (gleaned through e-mail) about which of the games is their favorite and why<br />
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Too much to accomplish in the next week or two? Invite another family to work with you. Or adapt the project to fit your students and the time you have available. (One possibility is to use the letters from SOCHI OLYMPICS, WINTER OLYMPICS, or simply OLYMPICS.) The point isn't to re-create what we did but to connect learning with current events. And to have something to show for all those hours in front of the flat-screen.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134595078815439298.post-81542523788860570992014-02-13T11:18:00.000-05:002014-02-13T20:00:49.835-05:00A Vision for Writing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Last night at a grammar presentation, I was asked to read an excerpt from Anthony Burgess's <i>A Mouthful of Air</i>. It began simply enough, but then I arrived here:<br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">When I corkled the veriduct in morful wurtubs and, prexing the coroflock, chonted the furpool by crerlicoking the fark, wottled the duneflow by fonking the raketoppled purnlow and then asserticled the prert (in both slonces) through a clariform rarp of werthearkers.</span><br />
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Do I need I tell you what an exhausting sentence that is to sight-read? Try it...aloud!<br />
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Once home, I silently read and reread the sentence. Something is not right. I translated it and found the same problem. The first word seems to be the culprit. Eliminate <i>when</i> and all is well, unless, of course, I lack proficiency in the grammar of Nonsense.<br />
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My translation:<br />
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<strike>When</strike> I noticed the child in dirty overalls and, assuming the worst, beckoned the teacher by ringing the bell, called the principal by banging the office door and then led the students (in both classrooms) through a long list of questions.<br />
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I wonder if students can translate the sentence from Nonsense to English. Can they spot which words are verbs, nouns, and adjectives? What about participles? While they may not be able to explain the grammar, my hunch is that they can feel it.<br />
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If they need a little boost, they can do it in steps.<br />
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Step 1: Figure out the part of speech for each unrecognizable word.<br />
Step 2: Rewrite the sentence with blanks, placing a clue (a part of speech) beneath each line.<br />
Step 3: Read the result.<br />
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Try it yourself first and include your translation in the comments. Then let me see theirs!<br />
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And, if that is a hoot for you or your students, you may like playing around with <a href="http://growingbydegrees.blogspot.com/2013/05/jabberwocky.html">Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky"</a> as well.<br />
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P.S. The idea for steps came from my daughter who saw what I was doing, shrugged her shoulders, and said, "It's like a mad lib, only there are a lot of blanks." Well, okay then.<br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.285999298095703px;"><u>What</u>: Write a diary from the perspective of a critter, as Doreen Cronin did in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/006000150X/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=006000150X&link_code=as3&tag=bydeg-20">Diary of a Worm</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062232983/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=0062232983&link_code=as3&tag=bydeg-20">Diary of a Fly</a>, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062233009/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=0062233009&link_code=as3&tag=bydeg-20">Diary of a Spider</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.285999298095703px;">1. Simply enjoy Cronin's books: the illustrations, the humor, the brilliant use of personification. (If you want to review personification or show your students examples of personification in movies, watch the video below. While you're at it, do a little Editing-on-the-Go and see if you can spot a spelling and grammar error</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.285999298095703px;">. Tsk. Tsk.)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.285999298095703px;">2. Notice similarities in each of the books. We'll start with the obvious: they are all diaries. (Phew, I'm glad we figured that one out!) They are written in first person. They mix fiction and non-fiction. (One excellent example is the June 7 entry of <i>Diary of a Fly</i>. Fly is nervously anticipating his first day of school (fiction) when he asks (fiction): "What if I'm the only one who eats regurgitated food?" (non-fiction). They have scrapbook pages, including pictures and captions. Anything else?</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.285999298095703px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.285999298095703px;">3. Brainstorm possible critters to study. Actually, anything non-human will be fine. Find books and websites about the topic. Read and study, recording interesting and important information on <a href="http://www.writingfix.com/PDFs/Pic_Book_Prompt_Worksheets/Diary_of_a_worm_research_handout.pdf">this sheet</a>*. I recommend setting sources aside when it's time to write. Otherwise, it's very tempting to use another person's words with minor tweaking here and there.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.285999298095703px;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.285999298095703px;">4. Plan the diary. <a href="http://www.writingfix.com/PDFs/Pic_Book_Prompt_Worksheets/Diary_of_a_worm_rough_draft.pdf">This sheet</a>* might be helpful.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.285999298095703px;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.285999298095703px;">*I found these sheets at Writing Fix. For some students, they provide needed support. If your students can run with their ideas, no props necessary, by all means let them. Don't mush them into a mold.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.285999298095703px;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.285999298095703px;">5. Revisit the planning sheet (or first draft). Ask questions for revision. Is the order of the entries logical? Can any words be strengthened? Can any sentences be reworded to make them flow better? Have you read the entries aloud to hear how they sound? Are there any words or sentences that confuse you or make you stumble?</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.285999298095703px;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.285999298095703px;">6. Check the conventions: spelling, punctuation, capitalization, etc. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.285999298095703px;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.285999298095703px;">7. Ready the text for sharing with others (illustrations, a fun scrapbook page, a cool font, whatever will announce to potential readers that they must pick it up).</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.285999298095703px;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.285999298095703px;">I'd love to see your favorite entry in the comments. Please share!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 20.285999298095703px;">Note: Although the planning sheets come from Writing Fix, I did not take this lesson from there. It came from my own thinker. : )</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-family: Ubuntu; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">I have written lessons to accompany </span><em style="font-family: Ubuntu; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; position: relative;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0399243313/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=0399243313&link_code=as3&tag=bydeg-20" style="color: #4ebdb0; text-decoration: none;">Woe Is I, Jr</a>.</em><span style="font-family: Ubuntu; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">, a grammar handbook for kids. You can read my introductory comments </span><a href="http://growingbydegrees.blogspot.com/2013/11/woe-is-i-jr-lessons-introduction.html" style="color: #5178a7; font-family: Ubuntu; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; text-decoration: none;" title="">here</a><span style="font-family: Ubuntu; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-family: Ubuntu; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: #111111; color: #333333; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><a href="http://growingbydegrees.blogspot.com/2013/11/woe-is-i-jr-lessons-chapter-1.html" style="color: #4ebdb0; text-decoration: none;">Chapter 1</a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><a href="http://growingbydegrees.blogspot.com/2013/11/woe-is-i-jr-lessons-chapter-2.html" style="color: #4ebdb0; text-decoration: none;">Chapter 2</a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><a href="http://growingbydegrees.blogspot.com/2013/12/woe-is-i-jr-lessons-chapter-3.html" style="color: #4ebdb0; text-decoration: none;">Chapter 3</a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><a href="http://growingbydegrees.blogspot.com/2013/12/woe-is-i-jr-lessons-chapter-4.html" style="color: #4ebdb0; text-decoration: none;">Chapter 4</a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><a href="http://growingbydegrees.blogspot.com/2013/12/woe-is-i-jr-lessons-chapter-5.html" style="color: #4ebdb0; text-decoration: none;">Chapter 5</a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><a href="http://growingbydegrees.blogspot.com/2013/12/woe-is-i-jr-lessons-chapter-6.html" style="color: #4ebdb0; text-decoration: none;">Chapter 6</a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><a href="http://growingbydegrees.blogspot.com/2013/12/woe-is-i-jr-lessons-chapter-7.html" style="color: #4ebdb0; text-decoration: none;">Chapter 7</a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><a href="http://growingbydegrees.blogspot.com/2014/01/woe-is-i-jr-lessons-chapter-8.html" style="color: #4ebdb0; text-decoration: none;">Chapter 8</a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><a href="http://growingbydegrees.blogspot.com/2014/01/woe-is-i-jr-lessons-chapter-9_13.html" style="color: #4ebdb0; text-decoration: none;">Chapter 9</a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://growingbydegrees.blogspot.com/2014/01/woe-is-i-jr-lessons-chapter-11_27.html" style="color: #4ebdb0; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 15.454545021057129px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px; text-decoration: none;">Chapter</a><span style="color: #4ebdb0; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"> 11</span></span><br />
<a href="http://growingbydegrees.blogspot.com/2014/02/woe-is-i-jr-lessons-chapter-12.html"><span style="color: #4ebdb0; font-family: Merriweather;"><span style="font-size: 15.454545021057129px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;">Chapter</span></span><span style="color: #4ebdb0; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"> 12</span></a><br />
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Congratulations! You have completed twelve chapters of
grammar study. You are practically an expert. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Actually, let’s check to make sure. Remember the <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzxeyBaSmufRbGZKT3BubHdqclk/edit?usp=sharing">Grammar Glossary</a> you completed in the <a href="http://growingbydegrees.blogspot.com/2013/11/woe-is-i-jr-lessons-introduction.html">Introduction</a>? Return to it now, this time
filling in the column on the right. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">And one more thing: at the beginning of this supplement,
you pitched your tent on a line. Where do you put it now? Leave a comment</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> to
tell me which way your tent moved--or if it stayed put.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;">A mole, tired from tunneling along, discovered the mitten and burrowed inside.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;">As soon as the hedgehog disappeared into the mitten, a big owl, attracted by the commotion, swooped down.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #e06666;">The bear, tickled by the mouse's whiskers, gave an enormous sneeze.</span></blockquote>
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These three sentences, all quoted from Jan Brett's picture book <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0399231099/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=0399231099&link_code=as3&tag=bydeg-20">The Mitten</a>,</i> have a similar structure. Do you see it?<br />
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<span style="color: lime;">A MOLE<u>, tired from tunneling along,</u> <b>discovered</b> the mitten and burrowed inside.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;">As soon as the hedgehog disappeared into the mitten, A BIG OWL<u>, attracted by the commotion,</u> <b>swooped</b> down.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #e06666;">THE BEAR<u>, tickled by the mouse's whiskers,</u> <b>gave</b> an enormous sneeze.</span></blockquote>
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No need to get bogged down with terminology. Observe the pattern; then use it as a springboard for students' original sentences. Include their best ones in the comments!<br />
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Note: For more Sentence Stalking, click the label in the sidebar.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134595078815439298.post-68935684772052483572014-02-05T11:52:00.000-05:002014-02-06T11:42:14.984-05:00A Blog Worth Visiting<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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All because of a pin, I stumbled onto <a href="http://patriciazaballos.com/blog/">Wonder Farm</a>, a website written by homeschooling mom Patricia Zaballos who "loves to write and wants others to love it too." I was immediately wowed by both her writing and content.<br />
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<a href="http://imaginationsoup.net/2014/01/parents-guide-writers-workshop/">The pin</a> was about writing workshop. What's there not to like about writing workshop?! It's an excellent way for students to write the content they want in the format they want for an audience of peers who give personal feedback. She had my attention.<br />
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<a href="http://patriciazaballos.com/2012/04/19/my-handy-dandy-process-for-helping-kids-write-nonfiction-based-on-other-sources/">I saw a post</a> describing a method of research using post-it notes. Someday, and hopefully someday soon, I will find a student to test it.<br />
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Then I saw her eight-part series: "<a href="http://patriciazaballos.com/become-a-writing-mentor-to-your-child/">Becoming a Writing Mentor to Your Child</a>." Now here is a campground where you can pitch your tent awhile. She writes lengthy posts explaining her philosophy on nurturing student writers, including practical tips for application.<br />
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<a href="http://patriciazaballos.com/2013/02/28/become-a-writing-mentor-to-your-child-part-1-teacher-or-mentor/">In the first post</a>, Zaballos contrasts a teacher and a mentor. During my homeschooling years, my teacher hat has constantly beckoned me. I've had to intentionally resist it and wear my mentor one instead. Which hat do you wear?<br />
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<a href="http://patriciazaballos.com/2013/03/07/become-a-writing-mentor-to-your-child-part-2-they-know-stuff/">In part two</a>, she contrasts two approaches to learning writing: scope and sequence, on one hand, and osmosis in a language-rich environment on the other. This one came easily for me from Day 1 of parenting; bathing my girls in words was one of my favorite parts of their younger years. On which side of the spectrum do you find yourself?<br />
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<a href="http://patriciazaballos.com/2013/03/14/become-a-writing-mentor-to-your-child-part-3-three-points-from-a-mentor/">In the third post</a>, Zaballos shares three "gems" she learned from Verlyn Klinkenborg, author of <i>Several Short Sentences about Writing</i>. I had never heard of this book before reading her post, but you can bet I've already placed a hold on it at the library. The gems further illustrate what it looks like to be a writing mentor, especially helpful to those of us who didn't grow up with one.<br />
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Typically, homeschooling moms think they must appropriate the "eye for an eye" philosophy when dealing with spelling and grammar. We all had to suffer through pages of spelling lists and grammar exercises, so of course our children should, too, right? Not if you want to mentor your kids. Zaballos shares her views and tips on spelling <a href="http://patriciazaballos.com/2013/04/02/become-a-writing-mentor-to-your-child-part-4-that-niggling-thing-called-spelling/">in the fourth post</a>. Then, <a href="http://patriciazaballos.com/2013/04/23/become-a-writing-mentor-to-your-child-part-5-grammar-by-ear/">in the fifth part of the series</a>, she does the same with grammar.<br />
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<a href="http://patriciazaballos.com/2013/06/13/become-a-writing-mentor-to-your-child-part-6-finding-meaningful-writing-for-kids/">In part six</a>, Zaballos offers a mother of reluctant writers advice for engaging her kids in the writing process. One of her more intriguing ideas is list-making. Seriously. Did you ever consider building paragraphs (and an essay!) from a list?<br />
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We learn <a href="http://patriciazaballos.com/2013/09/13/become-a-writing-mentor-to-your-child-part-7-the-power-of-positive-feedback/">in part seven</a> how to offer positive feedback to students' writing because, after all, don't we all thrive more when we see what we're doing right rather than focus on what we're doing wrong? She continues in a similar vein as she wraps up the series with <a href="http://patriciazaballos.com/2013/11/20/become-a-writing-mentor-to-your-child-part-8-encouraging-without-discouraging/">an eighth post</a>.<br />
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If you've ever read something and thought, "Man, I wish I had written that!" you know how I feel now. This is good stuff. Really good stuff. Let me know what you think.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1