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Resources > English > Chris Warren
Collapsing text as a technique This set of resources focuses on collapsing text as a technique. The exercise is called 'Building a Poem from a Quarry of Words'. Also included is some data generated by the Collapser program (on Pearson Education's English Online) – the work on Macbeth is particularly interesting – which shows that this technique can be used for analysis and research as well as creative purposes. (Chris Warren)
 Barnegat original.doc Patrolling Barnegat - Walt Whitman's poem
Barnegat collapsed.doc Patrolling Barnegat - the collapsed text from Walt Whitman's poem
I have a dream.doc The actual text from Martin Luther King's speech
I have a dream alpha list.doc An alphebetical listing of the adjectives, indefinite articles, locations, nouns, plural nouns, prepositions, pronouns, 'wh' words, present-tense verbs, future-tense verbs, past-tense verbs (perfect), past-tense verbs (imperfect) from Martin Luther King's speech.
I have a dream collapsed.doc the collapsed text from Martin Luther King's speech
Mbox original.doc - the original poem
Mbox collapsed.doc - the collapsed text from the poem How to Collapse a Text.doc A step by step DIY guide
Adverbs in Macbeth etc.doc Macbeth Word samples obtained using Collapser (English Online)
Digital Skim Reading
Digital Skim Reading.doc This trick involves getting the computer to read long texts in an instant, pre-marking it with eye-catching highlighter so that you can skim read more effectively for chosen combinations of information - VERY useful as an adjunct to Internet research. (Chris Warren)
Miscellaneous Resources
TRANSFORMATIONS1 .doc - very useful - aims to encourage students to develop a high level of skill in editing - with all the reading, comprehension and sophisticated understanding of language that goes with it. Seeks to use the editing power of the word processor, rather than simply using the machine as a souped up type-writer/transcription device.
Using Fonts to focus reading and discussion.doc - Reading KS3 - hidden meanings - reading and understanding media texts – fonts. The font idea, by Bob Cunningham is unexpectedly powerful – and I've included the PDF so you can print font sets easily.
 Memorials.pdf - the font sets.
Using Word Tables to organise an argument.doc This material illustrates one of the most useful features of a Word Processor. Students often find the organisation and manipulation of ideas in preparation for discursive writing both difficult and irksome. However, a Word Table offers a powerful tool to make the task easy and enjoyable - though the thinking process involved is still intellectually taxing. This activity introduces the concept of tables - how to create them, move around them and manipulate them. It then shows how the contents of cells can be easy moved around to organise the relationships between ideas, with the specific object of amassing and marshalling points in an argument. (Chris Warren)
Found poems
Found poems are great fun. This set of files shows how the word processor can be used to make them very smart, very quickly. Again the key feature in this technique is the highlighter tool. (Chris Warren)
Finished effect - guilty.doc
Finished effect - innocent.doc
Found poem instructions.doc
If it were done when - blank.doc
If it were done when - guilty.doc
If it were done when - innocent.doc
Filleted texts This set of files features Filleted texts Baby-sitting verb skeleton.doc - the verbs from Gillian Clarke's anthology poem "Baby Sitting" Baby-sitting noun skeleton.doc - the nouns from the same poem Jag verb skeleton.doc - the verbs from Ted Hughes' poem Jaguar
How to Fillet a Text.doc - instructions on how to make your own - and you can use my framework and replace the text, which makes the whole process even swifter. Also included below is the Word Wall idea – how to make your own and how to use a word wall with an Interactive whiteboard.
how2wordwall.doc
usingwordwalls.doc
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