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Start-Up Activity
Professional writers are aware of everything around them and jot down potential writing ideas all of the time. Why not invite your students to do the same?
Read aloud the opening page. Then begin a whole-class notebook, in which each student offers two or three possible writing topics based on their interests or real life events. Perhaps someone in the class broke his or her arm or someone else just received a pet. Discuss how these ideas could be starting points for stories, reports, and so on. Then encourage students to keep their own idea notebooks.
Think About It
“Most of the ideas for my books I have really don't come from observing my own children as much as from my own childhood.”
—Arnold Lobel
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Start-Up Activity
Professional writers are aware of everything around them and jot down potential writing ideas all of the time. Why not invite your students to do the same?
Read aloud the opening page. Then begin a whole-class notebook, in which each student offers two or three possible writing topics based on their interests or real life events. Perhaps someone in the class broke his or her arm or someone else just received a pet. Discuss how these ideas could be starting points for stories, reports, and so on. Then encourage students to keep their own idea notebooks.
Think About It
“Most of the ideas for my books I have really don't come from observing my own children as much as from my own childhood.”
—Arnold Lobel