Hooks by Linda Brumfield Middle Paxton Elementary

1. Hooksby Linda BrumfieldMiddle Paxton Elementary

2. Does your piece start with a “hook” to spark the interest of the reader? by Linda BrumfieldMiddle Paxton Elementary

3. Start with: • Interesting dialogue • A description of a person, place, or thing • Something humorous • An exciting action or occurrence • An exclamation! • An intriguing question ? • Something that demonstrates strong emotion • a mysterious statement by Linda BrumfieldMiddle Paxton Elementary

4. by Linda BrumfieldMiddle Paxton Elementary Interesting dialogue

5. Junior was digging under the pine trees. His mother called again from the porch. “JUNIOR.” Junior still didn’t hear her. He was intent. He dug carefully, lifting shallow scoops of earth on his shovel, then throwing them sideways into the brush. sweat rolled down his shiny face. “JUNIOR!” “JUNIOR Blossom!” Now he looked up. He made a visor with one hand and shaded his eyes from the late afternoon sun. “I’m making something.” “What are you up to, Junior?” From Wanted…Mud Blossoms by Betsy Byars

6. by Linda BrumfieldMiddle Paxton Elementary a description

7. “Under a chill, gray sky, two riders jogged across the turf. Taran, the taller horseman, Set his face against the wind and leaned forward in the saddle, his eyes on the distant hills. At His belt hung a sword, and from his shoulder a Silver-bound battle horn. His companion Gurgi, shaggier than the pony he rode, pulled His weathered cloak around him, rubbed his frost- Nipped ears, and began groaning so wretchedly that Taron at last reigned up the stallion.” • From The High King by Lloyd Alexander

8. by Linda BrumfieldMiddle Paxton Elementary something humorous

9. “My name is REGINALD BODDY, AND I’M your host for the weekend. Please give your bags – and your weapons – to my maid, Mrs. White. I have no intention of being murdered again.” From Clue: The Case of the Invisible Cat By A.E. Parker by Linda BrumfieldMiddle Paxton Elementary

10. by Linda BrumfieldMiddle Paxton Elementary an exciting action or occurence

11. My real name is John. John Coogan. But everybody calls me Crash, Even my parents. It started way back when I got my first football helmet for Christmas. I don’t really remember this happening, but they say that when my uncle Herm’s family came over to see our presents, as they were coming through the front door, I got down into a four-point stance, growled, “Hut! Hut! Hut!” and charged ahead with my brand-new helmet. Seems I knocked my cousin Bridget clear back out the doorway and onto her butt into a foot of snow. They say she bawled bloody murder and refused to come into the house, so Uncle Herm finally had to drag his whole family away before they even had a chance to take their coats off. From Crash By Jerry Spinelli by Linda BrumfieldMiddle Paxton Elementary

12. by Linda BrumfieldMiddle Paxton Elementary an exclamation

13. “WATCH OUT, PUDGE-BOY! Here comes number twenty-three!” That was Billy Becker. “Splat! Squish!” That was Arnie Markle, providing sound effects for the final moments of the bug Billy was smushing against the back of my head. “Mmmph grrgle!” That was me, Rod Allbright, trying to say, “Let me go!” - which wasn’t easy with Arnie sitting on my back and pressing my face into the grass. Why was Billy Becker squashing a bug against the back of my head? It was his hobby. From Aliens Ate My Homework By Bruce Coville by Linda BrumfieldMiddle Paxton Elementary

14. by Linda BrumfieldMiddle Paxton Elementary An intriguing question ?

15. by Linda BrumfieldMiddle Paxton Elementary “Emma! What-what what are you doing there?” From The Secret of the Indian By Lynne Reid Banks

16. by Linda BrumfieldMiddle Paxton Elementary Something that demonstrates strong emotion

17. The next morning, Monday, Jonathan woke up thinking that something terrible had happened. He was right: President Lincoln had been shot. How could he get out of bed and go to school, just as if nothing was wrong? From Back to the Day Lincoln Was Shot! By BeatriceGormley

18. by Linda BrumfieldMiddle Paxton Elementary a mysterious statement

19. by Linda BrumfieldMiddle Paxton Elementary From Frindle by Andrew Clements • “If you asked the kids and the teachers at Lincoln Elementary School to make three lists – all the really bad kids, all the really smart kids, and all the really good kids – Nick Allen would not be on any of them. Nick deserved a list all his own, and everyone knew it.”

20. Are you hooked on “hooks?” by Linda BrumfieldMiddle Paxton Elementary

21. Activity: Find several fiction books. Choose 2 or more books and identify 2 or more different types of interesting hooks. For each book/hook, use a ¼ sheet, and list your name, desk #, and Title and author of the book, ”Quote the hook”. Identify and list what kind of hook was used for each. If time, do more than 2 and share with a finished friend. by Linda BrumfieldMiddle Paxton Elementary

22. Small Group Share Activity • In groups of 2, 3 or 4, take turns reading the most interesting hook that you found. • Have your group identify the type of hook your book contained. • Share your favorite whole class. by Linda BrumfieldMiddle Paxton Elementary

23. Name__________Desk #Use one per book/hook. Name__________Desk #Use one per book/hook. Title and author of the book, ”Quote the hook”: “________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________.” Identify and list the type of hook: ________________________ Title and author of the book, ”Quote the hook”: “________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________.” Identify and list the type of hook: ________________________