Sentences with phrase «descriptive language features»
The PowerPoint works for two lessons: a lesson on the character of Spiros, focusing on how we understand character through Durrell's language choices and a lesson on writing in Durrell's style, putting the students» new vocabulary and awareness of descriptive language features into action.
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I am first defining the poetic function in a negative manner, following Roman Jakobson, as the inverse of the referential function understood in a narrow descriptive sense, then in a positive way as what in my volume on metaphor I call the metaphorical reference.7 And in this regard, the most extreme paradox is that when language most enters into fiction — e.g., when a poet forges the plot of a tragedy — it most speaks truth because it redescribes reality so well known that it is taken for granted in terms of the new features of this plot.
Students follow a clear and logical learning journey, in which they: - Define the different story genres and understand their key content features; - Understand the key features of different genres through interesting movie clips; - Work collaboratively using the jigsaw method to ascertain the language features (vocabulary, sentences, descriptive devices) of different genres; - Engage with a number of interesting story extracts (Louis Sachar - Holes, JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Darren Shan - The Vampire's Assistant, Jeff Kinney - Diary of a Wimpy Kid.)
Includes a Teacher's Resource Guide (full - color, 120 - page guide for professional learning and explicit instruction), CD - ROM (features activities, ThinkSheets, language supports, models, and assessments), Writing Prompt Bank (100 cards, 25 each of narrative, expository, persuasive, and descriptive writing prompts, Writing Resource & Journal (6 copies; 72 - page book includes space for students to build graphic organizers, a mini thesaurus with Tier 1 and Tier 2 words), Reading Rods Kits (1 Vocabulary Individual Student Kit and 1 Sentence - Construction Individual Student Kit), Reading Rods Vocabulary Activity Cards (48 additional activities reinforce strategy instruction), and Sentence Activity Strips (6 blank write - on / wipe - off 3» long strips).