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ORC Resource Number #9181
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Empowered Fiction Writers: Generating and Organizing Ideas for Story Writing
Promising Practice
PROFESSIONAL COMMENTARY

In this three-part lesson, students use timed speedwriting (also called free writing) as a prewriting technique for a narrative. To help introduce this strategy, posters on speedwriting’s purposes, benefits, and rules are available at the website. After teacher modeling, students try the strategy, increasing and logging the period of time for each attempt. Students then annotate their speedwriting looking for and “excavating” gems which are placed in appropriate categories in a graphic organizer for story elements. (author/sec)

OHIO STANDARDS
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English Language Arts Standards
Writing Process Standard
Writing Applications Standard
NATIONAL STANDARDS
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Standards for the English Language Arts
Write, speak, and visually represent to create text
Purposes for using spoken, written, and visual language
RESOURCE TYPE
Instructional Resource
PRACTICE LEVEL
Promising Practice
STANDARDS ALIGNMENT
Grades 6–8
TOPICS
English Language Arts --
Writing;
Writing Process;
Writing Strategies;
KEYWORDS
prewriting strategies;
speedwriting;
story elements
Publisher: IRA/NCTE
Author: Shawna Rodnunsky