Ideas and Content

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Ideas and Content

• By Jill Amick
• Tracy Nemitz
• Tom Nielsen

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• Developing Ideas for Writing
• The main point of the storyline
• Awareness of details
• Knowing whats important or interesting
• Clarity, focus, sense of purpose

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K-2nd

• Read the Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown.
• Let the students create individual books about
  things that important to them.
• Outline
• The fist line identifies the object and tells why
  it is important.
• The next three lines describe the object.
• The last line repeats the first line word for
  word except for the word but at the beginning of
  the sentence.

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3rd-4th
4 Square Approach
Introduction
Sub-Topic 1
Sub-Topic 2
Main Topic
Sub-Topic 4
Sub-Topic 3
Conclusion
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5th-8th

• Simple Sentences
• I went for a walk.
• Where did you go?
• Were you alone?
• Why did you go in this walk?
• What do you see or do on this walk?
• When did you go?
• Did you come back?

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Pretend you are a Reporter

• Ask the 5 Ws
• Who
• What
• When
• Where
• Why
• After your students write creative answers to
  these questions have them put all the answers
  together in a story.

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The 5 Ws

• Who
• What
• When
• Where
• Why

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Helpful Hints for Teacher!

• Be more interested in what is not in the paper.
• Ask questions that make the writer want to tell
  more.

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