In order to improve their writing, students need to read and recognize good writing. Writers often record words or phrases from literature that interest them or spark their imagination. For this activity, students will be encouraged to keep a journal or writer’s notebook to help them collect rich writing that can be used as prompts or topics for future ideas. This is an ongoing activity that can continue throughout the year or the course.
Strategies/Skills Used
Writing Skill 1: I generate ideas in a variety of ways.
(1) Have each student create a notebook called “Fabulous Quotes.”
(2) Model finding a fabulous quote by selecting a book with rich language, reading it aloud and choosing a quote that could be recorded in the notebook. The quote might be a powerful example of imagery, alliteration, description or emotive writing.
(3) Model how to cite the source by recording the title, author and page number of the quote. Keeping a reference allows students to practice this important skill and find the source again if needed.
(4) Direct students to find, in the works that they read during the course, quotes, phrases, sentences and words that they deem rich, descriptive and memorable. If you wish, ask students to find a certain number of quotes a week.
(5) This collection of fabulous quotes becomes a resourceful reference for generating ideas for future writing.
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