Monday, April 21, 2014

Caption Writing Test Pre-Writing

Overview: To successfully write captions in the correct format with all of the necessary information, you must first do some pre-writing.

Directions: Closely examine the following photos and complete the following prompts for each of the five photos. Be sure you write the answers for each of these prompts for all FIVE of the photos.

YOU WILL WRITE YOUR PROMTS ON NOTEBOOK PAPER AND TURN IN TO YOUR TEACHER.

Who: The full name (first and last) of all identifiable people in the photo. Sometimes a title like "Captain" or "Officer" or "firefighter" is helpful.

What: The action verb (runs, jumps, shoots, etc.) that describes the action in the photo as if it is happening now for first sentence. Come up with a second action verb for the second sentence (background information sentence).

When: The day of the week, time of day, day of the month if it happened more than a week ago.

Where: The specific location of the event in photo such as city, state, country, neighborhood or street.

Why: The information for second sentence that explains why the person was photographed. Why it is important?

How: An adverb that describes how the action was performed such as "powerfully," "solemnly," or "carefully."


Photo 1


Photo 2


Photo 3


Photo 4


Photo 5



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