[LM_NET] ELEM: Share-visual story starter

[Cheryl Youse <cyouse@GMAIL.COM>]

I'm in the middle of teaching summer school and resurrected this lesson from
my elementary days.  I have a very realistic looking stuffed cat, which I
put inside a bird cage.

Review genres.

Hold up the cage with the cat inside and ask "Why is the cat in the cage?
SCIENCE FICTION, 2 sentences."
Hopefully, the answer will be something like, "Alien birds from Mars came to
earth and rescued the bird from inside the cage with bird rescuing
machines.  Then they put the cat inside."  Repeat with each genre and you
will get some fun stories.  If you have more time, they can write down their
stories and make them longer.

The kids had a lot of fun with it.  I am sure there are some more 'visual
story starters' that the great minds on this list can come up with.  If
anyone else has some good ideas they have used, I would be happy to post a
hit.

-- 
Cheryl Youse, MLS
Media Specialist
Colquitt County High School
cyouse@gmail.com

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