Once students have chosen the piece of writing they want to improve, ask them to choose three of the strategies for writing good hooks and write three different hooks for their piece of writing. Students should record their hooks on the Fishing for Readers With Hooks graphic organizer.
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GREAT HOOKS BIBLIOGRAPHY; The following books provide good examples of strong leads for students. Grandfather’s Journey by Allen Say (Houghton Mifflin, 1993); Rodzina by Karen Cushman (Clarion, 2003); Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech (HarperCollins, 2002);
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Crystal at The Warrior Forum posted these writing hooks for introductions to catch your readers’ interest from the get go. These are great idea starters for blog posts or articles too.
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Writing Class Notes: Beginning Hooks - Strategies to use to catch your reader's attention ; 1. Begin with a simile or a metaphor.; My life has been a carnival. My family is like an open book. 2. Begin with a question.;
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Even if you're writing a character-centric story, it is a bad idea to tell people in your hook that she's six feet tall and blonde, was born in Indiana, and has two brothers and a sister, and her mother died two weeks ago.
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Gail Martin: Okay - opening hooks are vital - so let's remember some basic rules: Open with action - dialogue is good. Open at the point of action and change - a day that's different, arrival of a new character, awareness of a new problem. ... I love this and use I a lot in my writing. Look at this. It's from the first...
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Hooks are written either in cgi-bin/ljlib.pl file, or in a separate site-specific library file. Site-specific hooks are defined by the function LJ::register_hook(), which takes two arguments: the name of the hook, and the hook's perl coderef.
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Gone Fishing – writing the hook ... In my opinion, hooks are as crucial to the story as the plot. Why? Often you only have a few paragraphs, just mere seconds, to grab a reader’s interest.
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Online Writing Course module about Writing Hooks and First Paragraph ... What are 'Writing hooks' and how can the writer design hooks that work? Participants will learn to construct an opening paragraph with one or more writing hooks designed to grab the reader's attention and keep it.
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Most of the better web resources for feminist author bell hooks. An annotated list with bibliography. ... This page excerpts Chapter 1 from hooks' passionate look inward at the effects of and antidote to racism. I am writing this essay sitting beside an anonymous white male that I long to murder.
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