Introductions, Conclusions Transitions and Strategies

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Introductions, ConclusionsTransitions and
Strategies

• For the 7th Grade Writing WASL

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Step One Identify the Topic

• The first thing to do when you get the Writing
  WASL prompt is to make sure you understand what
  you are supposed to write about. As soon as you
  identify the topic, circle it and then refer back
  to it as you write your paper

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Circle the Topic

• Living in Your Community
• Your teacher has learned that a 7th grade
  student from another state will be moving to your
  area. Write a multi-paragraph letter to the new
  student explaining what it is like to live in
  your community.
• Circle the key words you need to write about

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Brainstorm

• Write a title and then brainstorm all the things
  you can think of
• Living in My Community
• Stores Friends
• Restaurants Library
• Movie Theater
• Parks
• Beach
• schools

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Choose Expressive Wordsthat create a picture in
the Readers mind

• Avoid the following
• Fun
• Good
• A Lot
• Nice
• Interesting

• Instead create a picture with words

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Use three Sentence Examples

• Elaborate on your ideas with at least 3 sentences
  to describe them
• The movie theater is
• really great. It is old
• and it has a balcony.
• Kids get free popcorn
• Too.

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Create An Effective Introduction

• Introductions, if you can do it, its great to
  start your paper with a bang.
• Some Possible Ideas for Introductions
• Sound
• Dialogue
• Shocker
• Create a Picture
• Tell a Story

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Sound

• WHOOSH! The huge owl swept past me and onto the
  ground.
• BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZ . . .BUZZZZZZZZZ . . . Ohh
  great, School! I turn around and slap the
  snoozer button on the clock.

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Use Dialogue

• I wish we could bottle up that vault of yours
  and sell it to your teammates, my coach once
  told me. That was the highest praise I have ever,
  and will ever, receive . . And it happened . . .
  at the gym, my favorite place.
• (SOB) Oh Why?
• Its not your fault. You did what you could to
  protect Tyler and Matt.

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Ask a Question

• What do you think of when you think of rain,
  fish, and maybe some of the most historical
  musical instruments in the 2nd ugliest building
  in the world?
• Do you remember that movie, Cinderella? How her
  enchanting godmother had granted Cinderellas
  wish of dancing with the charming prince?

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Write a Shocker

• Mousekin the mutant feline from the streets on
  New York is dead.
• He was a bad dog. That was an awful thing for
  the runner to think as she lay dying.
• Even as they were moving into their new 1907
  house in Spokane, the Drake family was hearing
  rumors from the neighbors about ghosts.

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Create a Picture

• Imagine a group of teenagers, strolling down and
  alley, smoking cigars and laughing. They are all
  under fourteen and it is ten at night. Their
  parents think they are out bowling.

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Tell a Story

• It all started innocently enough. We thought it
  would be good to get our children, then
  pre-schoolers, library cards and take them to a
  few library programs. They could get a jump start
  on reading and learn their way around the Dewey
  Decimal System. But somewhere along the line it
  has all gone terribly wrong.

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Tell A Story

• It is 800 and it is a chilly windy night. A
  rowdy 13 year-old boy stealthily creeps through
  the back door of his house and disappears into
  the darkness. A few minutes later, his mother
  calls for him to come to dinner and she is
  stunned when she is met with silence.

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Use Your Senses

• I sit back resting my legs from the sweaty saddle
  seat. I gaze through the trees and at the fields
  of horses running, the sounds of someone mowing a
  lawn and I see two dogs fighting over a dog bone.

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Write a Conclusion That is a book end

• Match the ending of the essay with a beginning.
  One technique is if you start with a sound, end
  with one. If you start with a picture, end with
  one.

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Write Transitions

• From one paragraph to another ,write transitional
  words
• One thing
• First
• Also
• Another
• Once

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Use Expressive Words

• INSTEAD OF
• A lot use_________________
• Fun use_________________
• Interesting use ____________
• Use words that create a picture in the readers
  mind

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Elaborate

• Use the 3 sentence ELABORATION rule.

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TIPS For Expository Writing Create a Pneumonic

• Description
• Dialogue
• Define
• Details
• Example
• Elaborate
• Story
• Scenario
• Question

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Make a Pheumonic

• D_________
• D_________
• D_________D_________
• E_________E_________
• S_________S_________Q_________

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TIPS for Persuasive Writing

• Concession/rebuttal
• Compromise
• Call to Action
• Citing Experts
• Reason
• Rhetorical Questions
• Reason 2
• Audience
• Statistic
• Story or Anecdote

• Position
• Appeals
• Testimony
• House that Jack Built

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Fill in the P

• C_________C_________C_________C_________R_____
  ____R_________R_________A_________
• S_________
• S_________

• P________A________T________H________

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Re-Read your paper for fluencyat the end