Ideas Are All Around
One of my favorite new books, is Ideas are All Around, by Philip C. Stead. The author has to write a story today, but doesn't have any ideas. So, he and his dog take a walk around the neighbor and to gather ideas for writing a story. The book features photographs taken along the walk.
Have students take a walk to look for ideas to write about. Take an iPad or camera and capture a few pictures of things around school or their home.
The students could write about their walk or focus on telling the story or explain just one thing they took a picture of during the journey.
Learning targets include: Using prewriting strategies, drafting an imaginative story, writing to explain the topic, or writing to convince the audience of the importance of the object of the picture.
Ideas really are all around us.
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