Ideas
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"Ideas are the main message, the content of the piece, the main theme, together with all the supporting details that enrich and develop that theme. The ideas are strong when the message is clear, not garbled. The writer chooses details that are interesting, important, and informative–often the kinds of details the reader would not normally anticipate or predict.
Successful writers do not 'tell' readers things they already know; e.g., 'It was a sunny day, and the sky was blue, the clouds were fluffy white …' Successful writers 'show' readers that which is normally overlooked; writers seek out the extraordinary, the unusual, the unique, the bits and pieces of life that might otherwise be overlooked."
from http://educationnorthwest.org/resource/503#Ideas
Activities:
Binocular Activity/Go Inside Poem
Changing Point of View from 19th-century wife to 21st-century wife/Turning knob of binoculars
Character Development
Grown-up Rules http://writingfix.com/Picture_Book_Prompts/SecretKnowledge3.htm
A Boy's Life Room Descriptions: http://writingfix.com/Chapter_Book_Prompts/boys_life1.htm
Show vs. Tell in Verbs: http://writingfix.com/Chapter_Book_Prompts/Walk2Moons3.htm
Expository Internal vs. External Side http://writingfix.com/I_Pod_Prompts/India_Arie3.htm
Successful writers do not 'tell' readers things they already know; e.g., 'It was a sunny day, and the sky was blue, the clouds were fluffy white …' Successful writers 'show' readers that which is normally overlooked; writers seek out the extraordinary, the unusual, the unique, the bits and pieces of life that might otherwise be overlooked."
from http://educationnorthwest.org/resource/503#Ideas
Activities:
Binocular Activity/Go Inside Poem
Changing Point of View from 19th-century wife to 21st-century wife/Turning knob of binoculars
Character Development
Grown-up Rules http://writingfix.com/Picture_Book_Prompts/SecretKnowledge3.htm
A Boy's Life Room Descriptions: http://writingfix.com/Chapter_Book_Prompts/boys_life1.htm
Show vs. Tell in Verbs: http://writingfix.com/Chapter_Book_Prompts/Walk2Moons3.htm
Expository Internal vs. External Side http://writingfix.com/I_Pod_Prompts/India_Arie3.htm