Hooks - Classification Activity- Montessori Sorting Cards + Lesson

This product was designed to review the different types of hooks students use in writing. The flexible Montessori Sorting activity has instructions on how three different teachers have used the basic product in slightly different ways.

Basically, students sort out complex ideas into the different hook types. There are twenty five ideas that students must classify.

Here are four examples:

1. “Learn to laugh” were the first words from my Kindergarten Teacher after Ralph Thorsen spilled paint on my daffodil picture.
2. This is a tale of a meeting of two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast.
3. Dr. Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.
4. We start dying before the snow, and like the snow, we continued to fall.

Students must classify the following hook types: humorous hook, strong statement/declaration, metaphor/simile, description, definition, fact/statistic, story, contradictory statement, and quotation.

In addition to the teacher directions, the product includes a traditional Montessori Card Lesson which you may opt to use, the 25 sorting hooks, nine categories, a student note-taking sheet, and answer key. This is definitely an "add water and stir" lesson that can be used in a Montessori or Traditional classroom.

This product is a .doc file so that you may alter the text size, font, and student names if desired.

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