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Strategy
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Julia Poor
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I have an old trunk that I use to stimulate ideas when we write about Pilgrim children coming over on the Mayflower. The students have to bring something that they can't live without to put in the trunk. It is interesting to watch the thinking process. I have also used this trunk as an idea stimulator for westward expansion and once for space flight.
I may use one or more of the following:
- Read aloud and discuss related books.
- Watch/listen to tapes.
- Have a guest speaker.
- Take a field trip.
- Do experiments/construction of objects.
- Observation of animals or conditions-use journals or take notes.
- Brainstorm
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Kathy
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- Have children write descriptive paragraphs describing objects as well as actions.
- Write/ examine poems for descriptions and adjectives.
- Analyze stories for ideas and discuss how they are effectively conveyed.
- Have children write about a completed activity that is still fresh in their minds.
- Remind them to convey experiences as perceived by all their senses.
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Mindi and Cathy
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- To teach ideas, we read literature where the idea is clear and ask the children to tell what the idea is.
- Also have them plan ideas for writing and talk about it in group to see if they have come up with a single idea or a group of ideas, and to see how the topic could be narrowed.
- We might have them brainstorm a list of ideas that could be used in times when they can't think of topics for journal writing.
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