Decoding the Prompt
This is the very first step in tackling a writing assignment.
What is decode the prompt?
CDs are this color.
What is red?
Language in the prompt can be used to make this kind of sentence written in blue.
What is a topic sentence?
Topic and concluding sentences are written in this color.
What is blue?
You should always do this when beginning a new paragraph?
What is indent?
In a 2+: 1 expository paragraph, you should have this many sentences of commentary.
What is one?
What are "what I read, what I saw, what I or someone else said, and what I or someone else did?"
This is the color and the abbreviation for commentary.
What is green and CM?
Name one purpose for completing a shaping sheet.
Acceptable answers:
To revise and edit grammar and sentence structure?
To check for flow of ideas?
To add transition words and phrases?
To see if my paragraph makes sense?
A one-chunk, Jane Schaffer paragraph is typically this many sentences.
What is five?
True or false: if a prompt is not written in the Jane Schaffer format with a ratio and a chunk specified then you do not need concrete details (CDs) and commentary (CM).
False! You can always "Schafferize" a prompt yourself!
The number of CDs in a one-chunk, expository paragraph.
What is 2+?
Commentary comes from these three places.
What are your analytical mind, your heart, and your gut instincts... (and a little wiggle)?
These are words or phrases that help connect the ideas in a paragraph by making sentences flow together.
What are transitions?
In academic writing, a paragraph needs these two sentences to make it truly a paragraph and not just a short answer.
What is a topic and concluding sentence?
If a prompt says to write an essay, this is the typical number of paragraphs you should write and what we call them.
What is five: Introduction, three body paragraphs, and a conclusion.
When citing quotes in a sentence, this is where the period should go.
What is outside the last parentheses?
Give a least two questions to ask yourself to generate commentary from concrete details.
What are: What does this CD show, and how does this CD support my topic sentence or my thesis?
(Other questions might be acceptable)
Transitions are typically written in this color on the shaping sheet.
What is black?
What is use a lead-in to give context?
The three parts of a three-pronged prompt.
What are the background, the trigger, and the task?
It is what you do after you have gathered all your CDs and before you go to the t-chart.
What is evaluate and prioritize?
What you do when you take commentary nuggets and put them together into one sentence.
What is pick and stitch?
Rather than simply copying sentences from the t-chart, it is important to do this rhyming revision when using the shaping sheet.
What is move and improve?
What is eight?