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- Use graphic organizers to brainstorm
writing topics
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- Use unusual pictures from magazines,
calendars, cards, or from your own album that will help jumpstart
detailed writing. Have students describe the picture in great
detail. Post the pictures and read the writing and challenge
students to match the description with the cards.
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- Rewrite a familiar tale or story using
only the main events and characters leave out the details. Read
the rewritten story to students. Challenge students to decide what
is missing. Brainstorm ways to improve on the story. To end
this mini lesson read the original full length version of the story.
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- Find a busy scene with lots of action
and people. (beach, shopping mall, farm, fair, or a park) Show the
picture to students and have them write the things they see on sticky
notes. Post the picture and the sticky notes on a bulletin board
and let this go on for a few days. Discuss what the students
thought this activity showed about writing. Details are important
but sometimes too many details can overwhelm and bog down writing.
Have students choose one aspect of the picture to write a story about.
(mom and child in the mall, the lone boy on the beach, or the black
sheep in the pasture)
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- Have students write about some
exciting event that happened to them recently. Concentrate on s
narrow topic and fresh exciting details.
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