Writing Prompts
Goals:
- Generate ideas for writing
- Make a personal Heart Map
This week we will revisit poetry as authors. We will become poets!
When authors write, one of the first things they think about is generating ideas for writing.
Georgia Heard is an author and poet who works with teachers and students to learn more about writing poetry.
In this video, Georgia Heard reads a poem she wrote about where she gets her ideas for the poetry she writes:
To help students develop and gather ideas for writing, Georgia Heard shares the “Heart Map” strategy:
Today, create your own heart map:
- Draw a heart on a piece of paper.
- Fill your heart shape with ideas, people, things and events that are important to you.
- Draw pictures and use words to capture your thinking.
Keep your heart map – we will use these ideas for writing later this week!
Other Opportunities:
- Revisit some of the poetry sites listed below – look for interesting poems to read:
- Keep on reading books you choose every day!
Note to families: Websites and online articles can be challenging to read. If your child is logged into their WRDSB Google Account, they can use the Read and Write for Google Chrome plugin to have online text read to them.
Categories: Elementary