Transcript Author’s Word & Phrase Palette” and “Gems”

“Author’s Word & Phrase Palette” and “Gems”
Author’s Word & Phrase
Palette
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Remember! This section of your notebook will be
the place where you will record words or phrases
that strike you for a myriad of reasons
You will be collecting all year.
Collecting, categorizing, and marveling at words and
combinations of words in your independent and
assigned readings.
This type of collecting will help you develop an
appreciation for the power of words
Active Verbs
Writing that snaps and sizzles when active,
lively verbs are in use. The specificity makes
writing hum with voice and often crates
sounds to delight in.
 Active verbs like skitter and crackle should fill
a lot of space in the author’s palette,
developing diction and increasing vocabulary
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Cool Words
Anything that may be new to you or you
come across that catches your eye.
 Cool words can be adjectives, nouns
(common and proper) or just about any
combination of letters that is unique.
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Phrases or Combinations
that Work
Maybe it’s an alliteration, maybe it’s
beautiful, maybe it’s parallelism, such as this
sentence.
 For whatever reason, these word
combinations dance on the page or dive into
our senses allowing us to experience whatever
it is the writer is expressing.
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Contrasts/Comparisions:
similes, metaphors, sensory
images, and others
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Look for something fresh, not stale like “faster
than a speeding bullet,” but new, original,
and something to aspire to as a writer.
The Kite Runner (Author’s Word &
Phrase Palette)
Copy the example under the doc cam on the first
clean page this section of your notebook
Gems
Will always be full sentences or more!
Gems
Instead of phrases or words that resonate with
you as a reader, for this section, I want you to
hunt down sentences that work, strings of
sentences, even paragraphs that make you
stop and read them again and again.
Gem sections
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I want you to dedicate on a few pages in this
section for specific purposes.
One page to Introductory Phrases (so title a clean
page, “Introductory Phrases)
 Another to Interrupting Phrases (so title the next
clean page accordingly)
 And another page to Sentences with Closing
Patters (you know the drill by now)
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Cut and paste the handout with the sentence
patterns above right under the titles.