Spivey Writing

1. Spivey Writing Harold W. Smith Elementary School

2. Agenda • Characteristics of Effective Writing • Main Sentence Trunk • Precise Nouns and Vivid Verbs • Action Expander

3. Characteristics of Effective Writing • Word Choice • Conventions • Grammatically Correct • Sentence Fluency • Ideas • Varied Sentence Length • Voice

4. Main Sentence Trunk who what action The dog ran .

5. The 5 Criteria of Main Sentence Trunk • Capital letter • Subject (noun) • Predicate (verb) • Ending mark • Complete thought

6. Your Turn! • Write a Main Sentence Trunk. • Code it to reflect the five criteria.

7. Precise Nouns The animal moved. What kind of animal?

8. Vivid Verbs The kangaroo moved. How did the kangaroo move? How can you make it more vivid without adding an adverb? What verb relates to a kangaroo?

9. Human Sentences old man slept. The

10. Action Expanders The kangaroo hopped. When? Where? How? Why?

11. Action Expanders anchor chart Where? across the field over the grass by the river between the rocks among the mountains beside the fence under the trees Prepositional Phrases

12. Action Expanders (with where) By the river, by the river. the kangaroo hopped. The kangaroo hopped

13. Action Expanders anchor chart When? at night early in the morning late in the evening at sunrise yesterday five days ago before sunset

14. Action Expanders (with when) by the river. By the river, the kangaroo hopped the kangaroo hopped At sunrise at sunrise.

15. Action Expanders anchor chart How? -ly with without by like as unlike different than slowly silently quickly clumsily timidly sadly happily Adverbs

16. Action Expanders (with how) silently By the river, by the river. the kangaroo hopped silently the kangaroo hopped at sunrise. At sunrise

17. Action Expanders anchor chart Why? because* so that since to + action Conjunctions*

18. Action Expanders (with why) By the river, by the river the kangaroo hopped silently silently because she was looking for food. the kangaroohopped at sunrise At sunrise because she was looking for food.

19. Action Expanders Text Structure Noun Expanders

20. Noun Expanders • Describers • With and That Phrases • Renamers and Repeaters • -ing and -ed

21. Noun Expanders anchor chart Describers color words size words shape words Adjectives nice pretty Watch out for boring adjectives!

22. Noun Expanders (with describer) the kangaroo hopped At sunrise silently large because she was looking for food. by the river

23. Noun Expanders anchor chart With & That Phrases with a shaggy coat with a bow in her hair with blue eyes that walked with a limp that laughed at everything that sang like a bird nice pretty Watch out for boring adjectives!

24. Noun Expanders (with “with” phrase) large the with the brown fur At sunrise silently kangaroo because she was looking for food. by the river hopped

25. Noun Expanders large the with the brown fur At sunrise silently kangaroo because she was looking for food. by the river “Surround the Noun” hopped

26. What do Students Need to Know to Transfer the MST to the Paragraph Level? • Types of Text Structures • Definitions • Reformatting maps/organizers • Questions

28. Transfer MST with Action Expander to Narrative Genre The girl swam. + to entertain While on vacation in Hawaii, the little girl swam in the ocean beside her big brother.

29. Transfer MST with Action Expander to Expository Genre to explain The girl swam. + Upon receiving scuba certification, the girl swam along the coastline of California to catalog the types of indigenous water plants.

31. Taking the Action Expander to the Paragraph Level The child cried hysterically because she couldn’t find her dog. Sniffle. When she settled down she began to look for Skeeter. Her eyes scanned the area. She looked all around the yard hoping that Skeeter was there. She got up from the swing. Walking to the front of the house she looked down the street quickly. Wait! Out of the corner of her eye she saw a small shape zip into the street. It was Skeeter.