Using Grammatical Structures to Teach Writing For Teachers Based on the book Image Grammar by Harry Noden Participles Absolutes Appositives Action Verbs Adjectives Shifted Out of Order The 5 Basic Brush Strokes ID: 331577
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Image Grammar
Using Grammatical Structures to Teach Writing
For Teachers
Based on the book
Image Grammar
by Harry
NodenSlide2
Participles
AbsolutesAppositivesAction Verbs
Adjectives Shifted Out of OrderThe 5 Basic Brush Strokes
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Pick one for your example: The elephant charged the lions.
The car went into the parking lot Basic sentences Slide4
Definition:
“-ing” words or phrases tagged on the beginning or the end of a sentence Example: “-
ing” = present participle; “-ed”= past participleWhat they can do:
Add
description to an otherwise bland sentence or string of sentences. Specifically, they give
motion
to a
sentence.
ParticiplesSlide5
Roaring a loud warning screech, the elephant charged the lions. Slide6
Definition:
Simply put, they are nouns + an “-
ing” participle.What they can do:Add description to a noun, a subject, or a phrase acting as a noun.
AbsolutesSlide7
Feet stomping, ears flapping, the elephant attacked the lions. Slide8
I ran to catch the bus.
Now YOU Try It
Add an ABSOLUTE
(noun + -
ing
word).Slide9
Definition
: A noun phrase that adds a second description, image, or idea to a previous noun.Simply, it means that you ‘re-name’ a noun with a word or a phrase.
What they can do: Add more description to the
subject
(person, place, thing, idea)
of sentences.
AppositivesSlide10
The elephant, an angry 1,200 pound beast, charged the lions. Slide11
The boat bobbed lifelessly
in the Lake Michigan swells.
Appositive “Makeover”
The boat,
a small weathered trawler with a
faded inscription -- “Lucky Lady” --on the stern
,
bobbed lifelessly in the Lake Michigan
swells.
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I ran to catch the bus.
Now YOU Try It
Add an APPOSITIVE(rename the bus or I)Slide13
Definition
: Avoid “passive” voice: It was raining. I
had been reading. The cookies were taken. (Watch out for “be” verbs.)Use a verb that does something!What
they can do:
Give a sentence ACTION and movement.
Action VerbsSlide14
The elephant attacked the lions. Slide15
I ran to catch the bus.
Now YOU Try It
Add an ACTION VERB(think of another word for ‘run’ to show more OR less urgency).Slide16
Definition
: Adjectives are descriptive words that help color and enhance pictures in reader’s minds.
What they can do: Give a “safe” and “ordinary” sentence more sophistication.Adjectives
Shifted Out
of OrderSlide17
The elephant, monstrous and fierce, charged the lions. Slide18
I ran to catch the bus.
Now YOU Try It
Add some ADJECTIVES(out of order).Slide19
Put It All Together
Look back over your practice sentences. Pick and choose parts (brush strokes) that you thought were particularly effective, and see what you can come up with for a final sentence.
Just like in art, the basic brush strokes are meant to be combined and to work together.Slide20
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The storm woke me in the middle of the night.
The road went around the left side of the barn. Slide22
This is a brief introduction and overview of Harry
Noden’s 5 Basic Brush Strokes from his book Image Grammar.
They are basic grammatical structures that give movement and “picture” to text. This is only intended to give the big picture, with practice and further examples to follow.
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Book Information:
Noden
, Harry.
Image Grammar: Using Grammatical Structures to Teach Writing
. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1999.
ISBN 978-0-86709-466-4 / 0-86709-466-4 / 1999 / 224pp / Paperback (Grade level 6-10)