Author's Style - by Ms. Rocha (John P. Ojeda MS, 6th grade Reading)

Students learn to color code the parts of speech:
NOUNS- yellow
VERBS- orange
ADJECTIVES - blue
ADVERBS- purple
Prepositions- green

Using this color scheme students find a newspaper article and color code it. By looking at the color coding students are able to literally see the writer's style. Some writers use more adjectives and some use more prepositions/prepositional phrases. We attempt to use articles by the same reporter so that we can figure out that reporter's writing style.

We look at the sequencing of the story by filling out an outline using the story and write a 15 word summary.