strategies for writing
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Strategies for Writing
How to Add Flair in your Story:
Descriptive detailsGreat explanationsSensory wordsStructure words
You want to be able to visualize in your head the story.
Develop Background Knowledge
Introduce subject content (Example: Fantasy)
Make a list of character and genre traits that could be found in the story.
Give examples of other stories to help students build on prior knowledge.
Step 1- Story Structure:
Who?
What?
When?
Where?
Why?
How?
Who
•Who are the main characters?
What
•What does the main characterwant to do?
When
•When does the story take place?
Where
•Where does the story take place?
Why
•What happens to the main character when he/she tries to do what they wanted?
How
•How does the story end?•How does the main character feel?
Who•Charlie•Willy Wonka
What•Wanting to find a golden ticket
When•Winter
Where•ChocolateFactory
Why•To win a golden ticket to go to chocolate factory
How•Buy chocolate for chances to win
Step 2- Adding Flair!
Students will go back and add in details to their graphic organizer questions.
Structure words are used to help students write with more detail.
Remind students that when writing, using their 5 senses is an easy way to add detail!
Introduce structure words: what, size, color, number, shape, where, when, background, movement, mood, and perspective
*You can make your own structure words list!
Who
•Who are the main characters?
Flair•Descriptive details.
What
•What does the main characterwant to do?
Flair•Descriptivedetails.
When
•When does the story take place?
Flair•Descriptive details.
How
•How does the story end?•How does the main character feel?
Flair•Descriptive details.
Why
•What happens to the main character when he/she tries to do what they wanted?
Flair•Descriptive details.
Where
•Where does the story take place?
Flair•Descriptive details.
Who
Flair•Charlie: Little , poor, lives with grandparents & parents, cheerful•Willy Wonka:Greatest inventor, black top hat, high and fluty voice
What
Flair•5 golden tickets printed on golden paper, hidden underneath the ordinary wrapper of the regular candy bars.
When
Flair•In February; turned very cold; Huge flakes drifted slowly down out of the icy sky; 4 ft of snow; freezing gale of wind.
How
Flair•5 lucky winners must buy the wonkabars that are sold at any store in any city and in any country.
Why
Flair•Invited to the factory for a wholeday, where Willy Wonka would show them around; Winner would be escorted home with large truck full of chocolate to last a lifetime
Where
Flair•Enormouschocolate factory, largest and most famous in the world, huge iron gates, high wall, smoke belching from it’s chimney, whizzing sounds from deep inside.