About this Resource
This video is part of the Good Practices in Writing Series. It focuses on strategies to teach students to generate ideas for writing.
Key Points:
- When we are teaching strategies to get ideas we start from personal experiences
for narrative writing, personal expertise for informational writing, and person
interest/passion for persuasive/opinion writing. - There are strategies for personal narrative and fiction writing.
- When we begin from a place of personal expertise in information writing, we can
focus on organization, text features and then move to research. Eventually we
want students to write on less familiar topics. - An excellent website for videos that can be used with students is
https://www.authortoauthor.org/.
