ReadWriteThink: Lesson Plan: Empowered Fiction Writers: Generating and Organizing Ideas for Story Writing - 0 views
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Wendy Windust on 21 Aug 09Empowered Fiction Writers: Generating and Organizing Ideas for Story Writing Overview This three-part lesson introduces students to the use of speedwriting (also called free writing) as a prewriting technique. Learning the technique of speedwriting allows students to generate a foundation of ideas on which they can build a narrative structure. Students then identify key ideas and phrases in their speedwriting, and organize their ideas around the main elements of a story (exposition, rising action, climax, conclusion).