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"Specific craft techniques are what I consider to be the small building blocks of different aspects of good writing, such as description, voice, sentence fluency. Teaching specific craft, whether it is through the whole class lessons or conferences, shows students one particular way to write at a time."

The table below outlines and defines the specific crafts you will practice using and teaching in this course. To see more specific examples of each of these crafts, review the craft in Crafting Writers K-6.

Sentence Beginnings ||  || Table 4.15 ||
 * ~ Craft ||~ Description ||~ Examples ||
 * Sense of Smell ||  || Table 4.2 ||
 * Sense of Sound ||  || Table 4.1 ||
 * Sense of Taste ||  || Table 4.3 ||
 * Sense of Touch ||  || Table 4.4 ||
 * Colors ||  || Table 4.5 ||
 * Comparing ||  || Table 4.6 ||
 * Specific Versus General ||  || Table 4.7 ||
 * Describing the Background ||  || Table 4.8 ||
 * Feelings ||  || Table 4.9 ||
 * Thoughts and Feelings ||  || Table 4.10 ||
 * Thoughts ||  || Table 4.11 ||
 * Showing After Telling ||  || Table 4.12 ||
 * Words Next to Dialogue ||  || Table 4.13 ||
 * Dialogue Structures ||  || Table 4.14 ||
 * Sentence Length and
 * Combinations with As ||  || Table 4.16 ||
 * Variations of Common Verbs ||  || Pages 58-59 ||