Writing for TAKS and STAAR
Transcript of Writing for TAKS and STAAR
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Four Corners
I know nothing!
I know just enough to be scared!
I know something!
I know it all!
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Color It Up
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Color It Up
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Color It Up
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Color It Up
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Color It Up
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Reviving the EssayGretchen Bernabei
“An essay is more focused and coherent if its unifying theme is one step away from the prompt”-Victoria Young, TEA
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TAKS / STAAR TopicsSurprise
Tough Time
Photo
Reptile Moment
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Shopping List
Conversation
Pet Peeve
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TAKS / STAAR Topics
Eleven-Minute
Essay
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Pet Peeve When a person starts a sentence
with, “I hate it when…”, that person will finish the statement with his/her “pet peeve.”
A pet peeve is a minor annoyance specific to a person that may seem silly to others. But a small annoyance often can make a big difference in a person’s life.
Brainstorm and write for one minute to answer the question “what does this mean?”
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Pet PeeveBrainstorm and write for three minutes answering the question “how do you know that’s true?”
Think of a book or a story that proves that. When you have a title in mind, write about the book/story supports the idea in the first paragraph.
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Pet PeeveBrainstorm and write for three minutes about a movie that also proves the idea. Use the name of the movie as you write about it.
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Pet Peeve
Brainstorm and write for three minutes about how the idea has been proven true in your life experiences.
Since you’ve already given two of your pet peeves, choose one of those to prove this point.
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Pet PeeveBrainstorm and write for one minute about one question that remains after all that you’re written. Start with “I wonder” or “I think” or “Maybe, though” to get going.
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Peer Edit
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Revision
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4—Personal Narrative & Expository
7—Personal Narrative with Extension & Expository
9—Literary & Expository
10—Expository & Persuasive
11—Persuasive & Analytical
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Finding Your MessageFirst Step:
“The writer must chew on the prompt, to read and reread it, to digest it, to find the hard-won truth in it, or the paradox in it, or the human struggle within it.”
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What do we already know how to do?
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Life is really fragile.
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The Insight Garden
An insight about life
Oneillustration
fromliterature
Oneillustration
froma movie
An illustration
from my life
I wonder
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A Memory Text Structure
Where you were
MomentIt started
Next Moment
Final Moment
What youthought
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A Completely Made-up Story
Momentinvolving
character(s)
Momentwhen aproblemarises
How the characterstry (unsuccessfully)to solve a problem
How the characters
solve it (or deal with it)
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The Story of My Thinking
but this happened so now I thinkWhat I used to think
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Comparing Notes(Mine and Others)
Some people
think
otherpeople think
Ithink
What could
change my thinking
and but
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Tribute to the Person who Taught Me Something
What thelesson is
Flashbackto thelesson
Description of theperson
Lyrics or wordsyou can
Remember that person saying
(on any subject)
What I wish I could find out now from that
person
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o Start with one sentence. o Teach your students different approaches
to expand that sentence.
o Glue these pages onto manila folders to open and stand up around the room.
o Let the students pick and choose which approach will work best for them.
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Snapshot ChallengeLook at your sentence.
Imagine that you’re looking at a photograph (or snapshot) taken at that moment.
Use words to describe everything you can see in the snapshot.
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Thoughtshot Challenge
Look at your sentence.
Imagine that people could hear everything you were thinking at that moment.
Write down everything that went through your head, and everything you though right then.
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Senses ChallengeLook at your sentence.
Write details to show every one of the senses:
What did you see?
What did you hear?
What did you smell?
What did you feel?
What did you taste?
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Dialogue ChallengeoLook at your sentence.
oImagine all of the conversation that went on at that moment.
oWrite down everything everyone said.
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Ba-Da-Bing Challenge
1. Look at your sentence. 2. Write one ba-da-bing sentence for that moment, with these three parts:
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