Finding Significance

Ideas

Select, develop, and communicate ideas on a range of topics

adds or changes details and comments to support ideas, showing thoughtful selection in the process
Processes and strategies

Processes and Strategies

Integrate sources of information, processes, and strategies confidently to identify, form, and express ideas.

seeks feedback and makes changes to texts to improve clarity, meaning, and effect

WALT: Find significance in an everyday experience

50 Word Story

AO: PURPOSES AND AUDIENCES.Show an increasing understanding of how to shape texts for different purposes and audiences.INDICATORS: constructs texts that show an awareness of purpose and audience through deliberate choice of content, language, and text form

This activity sounds simple, but it's not. To write a good 50 words story each word must be carefully considered. Because you only have fifty words,each word must 'pull its weight'. 

A good 50 word story will

• have sentences of different lengths (try starting with a very short one, followed by a much longer one)
• not repeat too many words
• have a 'twist' at the end. Kaedyn has a great example of all of this in his story 'The End"

Links

http://fiftywordstories.com/

Character Descriptions

AO: LANGUAGE FEATURES-Use a range of language features appropriately, showing an increasing understanding of their effects.
INDICATORS:uses a range of oral, written, and visual features to create meaning and effect and to sustain interest & uses a range of vocabulary to communicate precise meaning

Ask yourself some or all of these questions. Close your eyes...think...open eyes and write!

Whats up with the eye and the make up?

This guy just scares me...

An ex-pirate?

Her skin reminds me of an unmade bed!

Useful links

Structure and Language Notes

Adjectives list  Increase your brain power by using words you don't normally use!!!

Describing a person This has a good bank of words you may want to include.
S.O.L.O. rubric

Our examples

Jacks The Weird Dude
Molly's Homeless

That was Mistletoe Bay

AO: Language Features
Use a range of language features appropriately, showing an increasing understanding of their effects.

Indicators
uses a range of oral, written, and visual features to create meaning and effect and to sustain interest
uses a range of vocabulary to communicate precise meaning


THAT WAS SUMMER by Marci Ridlon has a very easy frame to use. When we began to look at it deeper we noticed:

• Starts with a question
• Has a list of things that don't have to be related
• After the question in each stanza there are four actions or things happening within the question
• Senses are used near the end of each stanza
• Stanzas 1-3 finish with that was summer (repetition)
• Stanzas 2 & 3 begin with remember the time..?
• Stanza 4 begins with If you try really hard can you remember...

Begin first with a ZERO DRAFT. This is where only basic keys words are listed. Use a writers palette and add your key words there.

Examples

Luke's