1 / 11

How do you HOOK your reader?

How do you HOOK your reader?. Hook Techniques. Question – it needs to be an engaging question that takes your reader off-guard. What would it take for a student to get a teacher fired after 20 successful years of teaching ? OR

reese-norman
Download Presentation

How do you HOOK your reader?

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. How do you HOOK your reader? Hook Techniques

  2. Question – it needs to be an engaging question that takes your reader off-guard. • What would it take for a student to get a teacher fired after 20 successful years of teaching? OR • Have you ever wondered what it would take to get your most loathsome teacher fired?

  3. Quote – use a famous quotation or a quote from the book or a quote from a song that will interest your reader. “Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?... Does anyone ever say no?”

  4. Dialogue – use a piece of dialogue between characters or people within the story – or ones you make up – to draw your readers into what you’re going to be discussing. “Why did you hum in class, Philip?” asked Allison. “I was being patriotic,” he replied. “Well,” she said angrily, “I just thought you were being stupid. Leave Miss Narwin alone! I like her.”

  5. Statistics– use a percentage, fraction, or other numerical reference to shock or otherwise interest your reader in what he/she’s about to read. 90% of the students at Harrison High School thought that Philip Malloy was a no-good, no-account liar and blamed him for the school losing Miss Narwin, the school’s best English teacher in 20 years.

  6. Startling Statement – an opinion piece or something you’ve come up with perhaps the lesson learned in your story or its theme. Students have every right to choose their teachers if they don’t get along with them. If that means that the teacher is punished, well, so be it.

  7. Humor/Joke– use something funny, or redesign an old joke set up – to catch the reader’s fancy in reading about your topic. How many 9th graders does it take to get a 20 year teacher fired? One, but he must be a liar.

  8. Onomatopoeia– remember, this is the one that sounds like what it is? Buzz, bang, click, tick… Phillip whipped the English door shut - Whump! Bang! - after he was sent to the Assistant Principal’s office again for humming the National Anthem in Miss Narwin’s homeroom.

  9. Interjection– interjections are words that grab your attention, like “Aha!” “Oh!” “Whoa!” “Stop!” “Help!” “Yummy!” “Wow!” “Ugh! HELP!” thought Philip when he realized that his D in English meant no track for him, not even the chance to try out for the team.

  10. Poem/Song – Using a well known or even a trite poem to start your essay can cause your reader to be interested in what you’re saying. Roses are red, violets are blue. Philip’s a liar, is Narwin one, too? OR O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light, what so embarrassed a school and made Philip unwanted?

  11. Opinion – State your opinion – and be free to have a controversial opinion on the topic. Philip Malloy is a whiner who deserves some real punishment for all of his lies and deceit.

More Related