Extended Lesson #1

November 18, 2015

Topic and Type: Using proper hooks to begin new writing assignments as a way to
grab readers attention. A lesson to review previously introduced content.
Content Overview: Key concepts throughout this lesson include the eight types of
hooks that can be used to open a story or begin a writing assignment as a way of
grabbing the reader. The key concepts/types of hooks include:
- ask an interesting question
- make a shocking statement/give shocking detail
- vivid description of the setting
- vivid character description
- dialogue conversation
- flashback/flashforward
- characters feelings
- sound effect (onomotapoeia)
SOLs: 6th grade class, Language Arts.
6.7c. Organize writing structure to fit mode or topic.
6.7e. Compose a topic sentence or thesis statement.
Instructional Objectives:
1. Every student will understand the importance of a hook in writing
(understanding).
2. Every student will know the eight different types of hooks (remembering).
3. Every student will be able to effectively create a hook for their own writing
to engage the reader (analyzing).
Assessment Plan:
Objectives
(UKDs)
1
2
3

Assessments: Formative and Summative

Formative: checking work done during group activity
Summative: quiz at the end of the unit
Formative: discussion, as well as homework sheet
Summative: quiz at the end of the unit
Formative: journal entry next day
Summative: writing assignment at the end of unit

Materials:
- Prepared PowerPoint
- Computer with projector
- Big Bad Wolf is Good book
- Index cards with hook type for each group
- Homework sheet
- Hook chart
- Entrance card

Warm Up: Fishing game hook. Two students will come up to the front of the
classroom to compete to see who can catch the most fish. One student will not be
able to catch any because the hook will be missing from the pole, emphasizing the
necessity of the hook in writing.
Closure: Students will be asked to complete a worksheet creating four different
hooks for the original Three Little Pigs story.
Lesson Body and Sequence:
Time:
2 minutes

5 minutes

8 minutes

10 minutes
2 minutes

10 minutes

Teacher Actions
Instruct students to sit down and
begin filling in the entrance card on
their desks answering two review
questions from the day before.
Ask for two student volunteers to
come up to the front of the room for
the fishing game hook.

Short PowerPoint presentation and

lecture reviewing the eight different
hook types and a short example
using each of the hook types for
Little Red Riding Hood.
Read Big Bad Wolf is Good aloud to
students
Pass out hook chart to students.
Divide students into eight groups,
giving each group an index card with
a different hook type.
Walk around and observe/help each
of the groups creating their hook
for The Big Bad Wolf is Good that
corresponds with the hook type on
their index card.

10 minutes

Instruct each group to share their

hook aloud while the other groups
fill in the chart corresponding with
the hook type that is being read.

5 minutes

Hand out homework sheet and

explain that they are supposed to
write four different hooks out of the
possible eight for the original story

Student Actions
Students will enter the classroom
and immediately begin to answer
the two questions on the entrance
card.
Students will volunteer and two
students will come to the front of the
room to compete to see who can
catch the most fish with the fishing
hooks.
Students who are sitting down will
pay attention to what is happening.
Students will follow along and
contribute to discussion as teacher
asks review questions
They will offer suggestions for Little
Red Riding Hood.
Students will listen as the story is
being read
Students will move into groups, each
bringing their own hook chart to fill
in.
Students will work together to create
a new hook for The Big Bad Wolf is
Good based on the hook type they
are given on their index card. Each
student will fill in the hook on their
hook chart
Students will share the hook their
group created, listen as their
classmates are talking, and fill in
their individual charts with what is
being said by other groups.
Students will work on the homework
sheet, asking questions as they
arise.

of The Three Little Pigs. If they do

not finish in class, it is homework
and will be due the next day.

Hook Chart

Directions:
Step 1 With your group, create a hook for the ONE hook you were assigned.
Fill in the appropriate box.
Step 2 Fill in the rest of the chart with the hooks created by the other
groups.
Name of Story: _______________________________________________________________________
How it starts: _________________________________________________________________________
Ask an interesting question

Open with a shocking statement/shocking

detail

Set the scene with a vivid description of

the setting

Open with a vivid character description

Start with dialogue or conversation

Open with a flashback or a flash forward

Begin with a description of a characters

feelings

Open with a sound effect (onomatopoeia)

Name: __________________________________________________________
Directions: You are going to write 4 different hooks for the original story of
The Three Little Pigs. This story started out like this:
Once upon a time there were three little pigs
This is boring and dull! Lets make it better!
You may pick ANY 4 out of the 8 hooks to rewrite for the original story.
1. Try starting by asking a question
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2. Try starting with a shocking detail
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3. Try starting with a bold or challenging statement
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4. Try starting with a quote, dialogue, or conversation
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5. Try starting with a vivid description, or a character description
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6. Try starting with a flashback or flash-forward
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7. Try starting with a sound effect

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8. Try starting with a hook of your own not listed here!
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The Three Little Pigs

Once upon a time there were three little pigs. One
pig built a house of straw while the second pig built
his house with sticks. They built their houses very
quickly and then sang and danced all day because
they were lazy. The third little pig worked hard all day
and built his house with bricks.
A big bad wolf saw the two little pigs while they
danced and played and thought, What juicy tender
meals they will make! He chased the two pigs and
they ran and hid in their houses. The big bad wolf
went to the first house and huffed and puffed and
blew the house down in minutes. The frightened little
pig ran to the second pigs house that was made of
sticks. The big bad wolf now came to this house and
huffed and puffed and blew the house down in hardly
any time. Now, the two little pigs were terrified and
ran to the third pigs house that was made of bricks.
The big bad wolf tried to huff and puff and blow
the house down, but he could not. He kept trying for
hours but the house was very strong and the little pigs
were safe inside. He tried to enter through the
chimney but the third little pig boiled a big pot of
water and kept it below the chimney. The wolf fell into
it and died.

The two little pigs

now felt sorry for having
been so lazy. They too
built their houses with
bricks and lived happily
ever after.