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How do you make your students plan? ideas please?

by Novel

Jun 21, 2011

I work on this constantly, telling students they have to know where the story is going before they begin to write, because that will help with crafting. Still, there are always two or three who start writing with absolutely no idea about direction. I always ban the "And then I woke up..." endings and, for the first part of the year, they are not allowed cliffhangers either. Any helpful ideas, please?

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meep(oops) nfm On 6/23/11, meep wrote: > I know for my Kinders, having them draw what they want to see > happen helps them to plan. We progress into the beginning, > middle, and end story development as ready. With older > students, maybe drawing a small picture and adding a sentence > or two on a web will help them get the basic idea of what they ...See More

Jun 23, 2011

Diane Owens Creating trouble or a problem for the story is the easy part - finding a way out of the trouble is a lot harder (unless you just wake up, LOL) Try having them work in small groups to brainstorm different ways out of the trouble in each other's stories. Remind them that it's best if the main character solves the story problem and that if a special s...See More

Jun 27, 2011

I don't On 6/21/11, Novel wrote: > I work on this constantly, telling students they have to > know where the story is going before they begin to write, > because that will help with crafting. Still, there are > always two or three who start writing with absolutely no > idea about direction. I always ban the "And then I woke > up..." endin...See More

Aug 30, 2011

Lila On 8/30/11, I don't wrote: > On 6/21/11, Novel wrote: >> In Grade 4-6 students cam and do like to write whatever comes into their minds. Never taking the pencil off the paper, just keeping the writing flowing. Even if it changes to another idea, just keep writing...students do this for whatever amount of time the teacher decides. The stude...See MoreOn 8/30/11, I don't wrote: > On 6/21/11, Novel wrote: >> In Grade 4-6 students cam and do like to write whatever comes into their minds. Never taking the pencil off the paper, just keeping the writing flowing. Even if it changes to another idea, just keep writing...students do this for whatever amount of time the teacher decides. The students need to know that no one will read what they write.

the above is a good way to release ideas from within. Teacher should write at the same time as the students.Try this...it works...

>> know where the story is going before they begin to write, >> because that will help with crafting. Still, there are >> always two or three who start writing with absolutely no >> idea about direction. I always ban the "And then I woke >> up..." endings and, for the first part of the year, they >> are not allowed cliffhangers either. >> Any helpful ideas, please? > > If we're talking creative writing, I let them write. I believe > that generating writing and 'loosening their tongues' as it > were is the goal. Just getting an idea to write about can be a > challenge. > > And I think there are many accomplished writers out there who > just write with no idea of direction. Writers sometimes speak > to books that 'wrote themself' most particularly when it's > creative writing. > > Why ban cliffhangers? How cool is that for students to be able > to write a cliffhanger? Lloyd Alexander ended every single > chapter in every single book he wrote with a cliffhanger and I > marveled at his ability to do that. > > I guess in the end that for creative writing I'd say they don't > have to know where they're going before they begin to write - > different writers have different styles. F. Scott Fitzgerald > drank 32 beers in the course of writing a short story... > > You should read Paul Auster's City of Glass to get an idea of > writing that might not know where it's going. What about > Stockton's The Lady or The Tiger? Doesn't that end on a > cliffhanger? Isn't it common for writers to say I don't know > where this is going but then in the course of writing and the > creative juices that writing engenders, they figure out where > it's going? Does every writer know the end of the story when > they begin to write it? > > I don't think so.

Nov 1, 2011

Abbie Graphic organisers are fantastic. When planning I get students to do an initial plan only, using graphic organisers and short notes. I tell them the plan only needs to make sense to them.

Draw the outline of a mountain to represent plot development.

Nov 1, 2011

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