WRITE ON!

1. WRITE ON! with Diane Z. Shore

2. Fictional Narrative • Fictional - not true, made up • Narrative – story IMAGINATION

3. BRAINSTORMING • 1) Write down everything you know about your story : character, setting, problem situation, solution, etc. Ask wh- questions • 2) Imagine everything about your character, problem, setting, etc. • 3) prop (when not given a prompt)

4. Point of view Setting Character(s)

5. Hook/Grabber One or two (or more) sentences that reels your reader in Start your story where your story starts

6. Pickle – Problem or Challenge or Something Out of the Ordinary • Problem – conflict/interferes with goal Ex. You told your mom you would babysit your little brother on Saturday, and your best friend just got tickets to the concert that night. • Challenge - main character wants to accomplish something. Ex. Earn enough money to buy a Wii. • Something out of the ordinary - not an every day occurrence. Ex. You find a strange message on your cell phone

8. Point of view Setting Character(s)

9. Action/Plot • Plot- what moves your story along and keeps the reader turning the pages. Ex. rescue a friend, get into trouble, have to do something scary or silly. • nerve-wracking suspense-building rib-tickling spine-tingling

10. Plot- what moves your story along and keeps the reader turning the pages. Ex. rescue a friend, get into trouble, have to do something scary or silly.

13. Climax/Solution

15. Take Away/Wrap up • One or two sentences that tell the reader what the main character learned or how his life has changed.

16. Take Away/Wrap up

20. Painting a Story with Words • Your paper is the easel and your pen the paintbrush. Your words are the paints. • Choose words that create visuals or mental pictures and fire up the senses.

21. VIVID VERBS AND COLORFUL WORDS • Vivid Verbs and Colorful Words • Vivid Verbs and Colorful Words • Vivid Verbs and Colorful Words • out the door and took a drink out of his glass. • Jack boltedout thescreen doorchugginghisGatorade. • He went out the door and took a drink . • Ali skippedalongthesidewalk sippingherjuicebox. When you’re writing to impress don’t use a word that fizzles ….

23. Fire Up the Senses!! The mud squished between her toes. Thistle spines pierced his skin when the cat leapt up and clawed his back. The smell of warm, buttery popcorn floated through the dark theater. The chewing gum tasted minty. The horse clippity-clopped along the red, brick road. Punching bag and gloves exercise

24. Sensory Check • Sight - foggy, striped, flashing • Sound – splashing, snoring, jingling • Taste - buttery, lemony, sweet • Smell - burning, perfumey, grassy, • Touch – silky, sandy, cottony, bristly

25. Onomatopoeia • The use of a word that sounds like the thing it stands for

26. Emotions More words to avoid: I’m not going to the concert tonight. My head aches and my throat is as scratchy as sandpaper. I feel______. Ewww! I’m not eating that sandwich, it tastes ____. When the principal announced Melanie’s name as the recipient of the Outstanding Student Award, she felt _____. Good, great, terrific, awesome Bad, terrible, horrible, gross

27. Words to avoid: Forms of the verb “to be”: is, am, are, was, were, can, could, be, been, has, had, have, will, would, may, might, must ,should, shall, being, do, did, does, go, went, gone, Also, “there is, there was”

28. Similes and Metaphors • Simile- comparing two things using the work “like” or “as” He tumbled around like underwear in a dryer. • Metaphor – a comparison without using the word “like” or “as” The linebacker was a bulldozer on the football field.

31. Hyperbole • Exaggeration for effect

32. Show vs. Tell • Describing something instead of directly stating the obvious - be creative • Tell - Scruffy got loose. • Show – Scruffy scratched and pawed under the chain link fence until he dug a hole big enough to wiggle through. Exercise

33. Dialogue/Dialogue Tags • “I can’t wait to build a snowman!” said Eric. • “I can’t wait to build a snowman!” exclaimed Eric. • “I can’t wait to build a snowman!” Eric zipped up his jacket and threw his scarf around his neck.

34. Revisions/Rewrite • Five parts of the story • Sensory Check (Onomatopoeia) • Vivid Verbs and Colorful Words • Similes /Metaphors • Dialogue/Dialogue Tags • Show vs. Tell • Hyperbole

35. Expository (ipod) • information – facts, examples, details • Persuasion – reasons, support, arguments • Opinions – personal experience, viewpoint, compare/contrast • Directions – steps, stages

39. Greasy Old Stuffby Melissa Forney Under the car hood there’s greasy old stuff, Hoses and fan-belts all rubbery and rough. Gadgets are grinding and pistons are pumping, And some little gizmo is spinning and thumping. The engine is coughing a frightful explosion! The battery’s covered with gray-green corrosion. Gas fumes are rising and motors are whirring • And what-cha-ma-call its are chugging and purring. Figurative language or speech contains images. The writer or speaker describes something through the use of unusual comparisons, for effect, interest, and to make things clearer. The result of using this technique is the creation of interesting images.   • Harder - Figurative language is not intended to be interpreted in a literal sense. Appealing to the imagination, figurative language provides new ways of looking at the world. It always makes use of a comparison between different things. Figurative language compares two things that are different in enough ways so that their similarities, when pointed out, are interesting, unique and/or surprising.