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by Steve Peha
The best way to teach
is the way that makes sense
to you, your kids,
and your community.
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I Don¡¯t Know What to Write About
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The Topic T-Chart strategy. A great way to guide students in choosing good topics. Also, additional strategies for topic selection in research writing.
It¡¯s Just a Matter of Opinion
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The What-Why-How strategy. A powerful tool for helping students explain their thinking and
support logical arguments. Perfect for expository and persuasive writing.
It¡¯s All in the Details
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The Idea-Details strategy. A very simple strategy that is much more powerful than it looks. Helps
writers add detail but can also be used to create entire pieces of writing all by itself.
A Game of Show and Tell
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The Tell-Show strategy. A great strategy for adding rich, descriptive detail. Helps writers bring a
strong visual component to their work.
A Sequence of Events
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The Transition-Action-Details strategy. A perfect strategy for narrative sequencing. Also works
well for summaries and procedural writing of all kinds including step-by-step instructions.
The Picture Worth a Thousand Words
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The Draw-Label-Caption strategy. A great strategy for writers of all ability levels. Helps students
capture a scene and focus on important details.
The Three Key Ingredients
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The Action-Feelings-Setting strategy. A great tool for helping writers describe a scene in a
narrative with effective detail. Also makes a great introduction to paragraph writing.
The Definition of Writing
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The Content-Purpose-Audience strategy. A powerful, comprehensive strategy writers can use to
plan an entire piece or to identify areas in a draft that need revision.
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Great Beginnings
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Effective Lead Strategies. A large collection of strategies for helping students produce great
beginnings. Includes samples of more than 25 types of leads.
Happy Endings
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Effective Ending Strategies. A set of excellent strategies for creating effective endings. Many
authentic samples from student work.
Little Things That Make a Big Difference
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A Variety of Strategies. A brief look at several small but important topics including sharing and
conferencing, how to beat writer¡¯s block, and The Five Big Questions.
? 1995-2003 by Steve Peha. For more information, or additional teaching materials, please contact: Teaching That Makes Sense, Inc. ? E-mail stevepeha@ ? Web
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I Don¡¯t Know What
to Write About
It¡¯s the worst feeling in the world. You know you¡¯re supposed to be writing; your teacher just told you to get started. But where do you start?
Finding a good topic is one of the hardest parts of learning to write. And, unfortunately, every writer runs into it right at the beginning. Even if you do come
up with a good topic for today, what about tomorrow? And the next day? And the
next? Are you going to have to struggle like this every time a teacher asks you to
write?
Probably.
No matter how many times you¡¯ve come up with good topics before, you end
up with the very same problem the next time you start a piece. And that¡¯s why
you need strategies that will always give you many good topics to choose from.
One approach that seems to work well for many writers is the Topic T-Chart
strategy. The idea is to make two lists at the same time based on opposites. Here
are some examples that will help you find something good to write about:
? Like-Hate. Things you like and things you hate.
? Typical-Unusual. Typical experiences that happen almost every day
and unusual experiences that have happened only once or twice in
your entire life.
? Fun-Have To. Things you do for fun and things you do because you
have to.
? Regret-Proud Of. Things you regret and things you are
proud of.
You can use these lists over and over. (You can even use them in different
classes and in different grades!) Try a couple of the ones suggested here or make
up your own. In just a few minutes, you¡¯ll have enough topics to last a whole
year!
? 1995-2003 by Steve Peha. For more information, or additional teaching materials, please contact: Teaching That Makes Sense, Inc. ? E-mail stevepeha@ ? Web
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