On 10/13/15, Danielle Crocker wrote:
> On 10/12/15, Mirna wrote:
>> Hello fellow teachers,
>>
>> My name is Mirna and I am currently in my second year of
> teaching Year 8 at an
>> independent school in Sydney. I am always trying to find
> new strategies and ways
>> to improve how I teach in order to help students be
> constantly challenged and
>> motivated in the classroom.
>>
>> However I was wondering if anyone could share different
> strategies or resources
>> they use when teaching how to write a narrative?
>>
>> I usually model how to write a narrative however I find
> that the students seem to
>> be stuck on forming ideas and writing a detailed problem. I
> try to suggest
>> different problems etc. but would love to hear other ways
> teachers get their
>> students to write interesting narratives.
>>
>> Thank you in advance.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Mirna
>
>
> Hi Mirna,
>
> I could suggest a photo stimulus for students related to what
> ever the topic is. The use a hot potato strategy to generate
> ideas.
>
> 1) Get students to look at a photo you have chosen for a
> minute.
> 2) Give students 40 seconds to write as many words as
> possible about the photo on a loose piece of paper.
> 3) Swap that piece of paper with another student - students
> have 40 seconds again to write words on this piece of paper
> only they cannot write words they have already written.
> At this stage you might students some prompts to generate
> thinking - is this about war or could it be skirmish or a
> costume for a Halloween party.
> 3) students change papers 2 more times - if students are
> coming up with the same ideas on the paper ask them to rule
> to it off and come up with other ideas.
> 4) Students then take back their original paper.
> 5) students them come up with two scenarios they could write
> about. They then have 90 seconds to share these two ideas
> with a buddy. The buddy must remain quite for the whole time.
> 6) the buddy then has 30 seconds to share what they liked and
> build on the story.
> 7) swap over and then the other person shares their ideas.
>
> I've found it generates some interesting thinking. Some
> examples of ideas generated where:
> - person has received a love letter
> - solider has just killed what he thought was an enemy then
> when he went to search the body he found a letter which
> proved he was an innocent civilian.
Let me know if you need any further information
Danielle
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