Re: Gen: Creative Writing ideas

[lisa von drasek <lisav@BNKST.EDU>]

There is a terrific book called _Kids Have All The Write Stuff_  by Sharon =
Edwards,(Penguin Books) that has wonderful ideas and suggestions for =
motivating children and creative writing.  Although the book is written =
for elementary teachers and parents, the  projects are easily adapted to =
the upper grades.

The key to their program is to have _Writing Boxes_ available for kids to =
write as the inspiration hits them and also have a structured plan.  My =
program was 6 weeks long and during that time we wrote cartoons, newspapers=
, poetry, secret codes and hieroglyphics, made maps and put together an =
imaginary restaurant with recipes for the chef , menus
 ( now that I think about it, we could have written reviews). I book-talked=
 related titles , then modeled the project, then the kids wrote for about =
40 minutes then we shared.  The children were then free to continue the =
project  that they had been working on or start something new.

I hope this helps. Lisa

Lisa Von Drasek
Children=27s Librarian
Bank Street College of Education
School For Children
610 W.112th Street
New York   NY 10025

lisav=40bnkst.edu
212-875-4452

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