This lesson gets students thinking about adding some creativity to the details. It is based off of advice given to a character from the book Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street by Roni Schotter.
The advice is:
- Focus on an interesting detail or two
- Find poetry in your words
- Spice it up with action
- ask what if to find your story
Students will choose 3 specific nouns to write about in a short story. They will chose a person, a place, and a thing that will represent this person. Then they run down the list and fill in how they would describe each noun using each piece of advice.http://writingfix.com/PDFs/Pic_Book_Prompt_Worksheets/90th_Street_pre-write.pdf
Then the teacher will read the sample story right before students turn the worksheet into a smooth beginning of a short story.
http://writingfix.com/PDFs/Pic_Book_Prompt_Worksheets/90th_6th_Samples.pdf
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