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Analyzing Writer’s Craft

Analyzing Writer’s Craft. Presented by: Kelly Philbeck. Craft of Artists. Look following two paintings and jot down some similarities and some differences that you see. What do you notice about the artists’ techniques? What differences do you see?. Compare and Contrast.

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Analyzing Writer’s Craft

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  1. Analyzing Writer’s Craft Presented by: Kelly Philbeck

  2. Craft of Artists • Look following two paintings and jot down some similarities and some differences that you see. • What do you notice about the artists’ techniques? • What differences do you see?

  3. Compare and Contrast Grant Wood’s American Gothic Edvard Munch’s The Scream

  4. Writer’s Craft…Words Paint a Thousand Pictures

  5. What is Writer’s Craft? Craft is the art of writing. It is the writer’s intentional use of the following to create an effect on the reader: • figurative language • snapshots/imagery/details • thoughtshots • word choice/word placement • sound/dialogue • sentence structure/stylistic devices • text features • text structure

  6. Writer’s Craft Encompasses: • Style • Tone • Voice • Audience Awareness • Structure/Organization • Technique

  7. Categories of Craft • Word Craft—careful, deliberate word choice • StructuralCraft—organizational features • AudibleCraft—sound choices • VisualCraft—print features • Laminack & Ray

  8. Word Craft • Deliberate, artful choice of words [Ray 1999] • Figurative language • Word Choice • Vivid verbs • Imagery • Details

  9. Structural Craft • Organizational Framework of the Writing [Ray 1999] • Text structure • Paragraph types • Transitional devices • Parallel structure • Repetition • Page Layout/White Space

  10. Audible Craft • Language that Lingers… [Laminack 2007] • Noticed without even seeing the print [[Laminack 2007 • Alliteration • Assonance • Onomatopoeia • Rhythm • Cadence • Hard/Soft Sounds

  11. Visual Craft • Thoughtful, artful placement of text on a page [Laminack 2007] • Must be seen to be noticed [Laminack 2007] • Print Features (bold, italics, fonts, punctuation) • Line breaks • White space • Graphics—pictures, illustrations, charts, maps

  12. Bridging with Writer’s Craft • Analyzing Writer’s Craft is essential to modeling the type of writing product you want students to create. • If you want an article, analyze how professional writers craft articles. • If you want a science lab report, analyze scientific writers craft science lab reports. • If you want a historical analysis essay, analyze how professional writers craft historical essays.

  13. Writer’s Craft: Text Features • 3 Papers in front of you: • Writer’s Craft: Text Features Sheet (p.5) • 3 Column Chart (separate sheet) • “How to Keep a Lid on Holiday Spending” article (p.21)

  14. Let’s Analyze Text Features in an Article • Step 1: Skim over your Writer’s Craft: Text Features definitions list • Step 2: Look at your article: • “How to Keep a Lid on Holiday Spending” • Step 3: Underline any text features you see • Step 4: Label the text features • Step 5: Complete the Writer’s Craft chart

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  17. Analyzing Writer’s Craft Notice pic is not Santa or Money

  18. Find 3 More Examples of Text Features and Work Through Your Writer’s Craft Chart:

  19. Writer’s Craft: Evidence

  20. Writer’s Craft: Text Features • 3 Papers in front of you: • Writer’s Craft: Evidence (p.2) • 3 Column Chart (separate sheet—flip over to analyze for evidence) • “How to Keep a Lid on Holiday Spending” article (p.21)

  21. Be More Specific… • Knowing evidence is important…

  22. Evidence=CSI

  23. With Your Group… • Step 1: Take a moment to read the list of the 25 types of evidence writers commonly use. • Step 2: Highlight/underline evidence in “How to Keep a Lid on Holiday Spending” • Step 3: Label evidence as the appropriate type from the list of 25 (some may serve multiple purposes) • Step 4: Work through your Writer’s Craft Chart

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  27. Find 3 More Examples of Evidence and Work Through Your Writer’s Craft Chart:

  28. Tips for Use • I have students analyze writer’s craft on most everything we read. • We started small… • Only looked at literary devices/figurative language for period of time • Used with Lit Circles • Students created our definition sheet • Then we analyzed for stylistic devices, then text structure, etc. to build our writers’ eyes.

  29. Tips for Use • I have students analyze writer’s craft on most everything we read. • We keep craft sheets in sheet protectors in the middle of their 3 pronged writing folders. • We refer back to craft findings for prewriting AND revision of writing.

  30. Sources • Ray, Katie Wood. Wondrous Words. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1999. • Laminack, Lester. Cracking Open Author’s Craft. New York: Scholastic, 2007.

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