Contributor
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Strategy
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Joanie Wilcox
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- Personification: Students write from the point of view of an animal or an inanimate object...what are you? what are you doing? what are you feeling?
- Students find a poem which expresses their feelings, personality, who they are. This requires a variety of poetry books to be available.
- Write something designed to persuade someone to play your favorite game or playground activity.
- Students write examples of notes to a friend, e-mail, a letter to a teacher, a report for a class, a penpal letter, and a letter to the editor of a paper or magazine. Discuss the different ways we write in each of these styles, and the kinds of
messages we are trying to communicate. (They love it when I write a letter to the editor as if I were writing a note to a friend (6th grade style!) It really brings home the idea of audience as well...what will the adults who read this paper think (and say) about teenagers after reading your letter?
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Shirley Holloway
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- First, share all kinds of examples of voice.
- Model for the students what you want them to do.
- Teacher models an All About Me story on one of the first
days of school. Perhaps, publish it for parents so they learn about you. Include a lot of "Voice" . Share some strong opinions.
- Children seem to come alive when we write about pet peeves.
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Avis Breding
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- Have students take a part of their story and reread it. Ask them if they can think of a time that relates to what they wrote and how they felt. Can they put those feelings into the story?
- Students team read stories with a partner, asking them to tell where more feelings or thoughts could be added for clarification.
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