Ideas

Ideas can come from anywhere.  We created some charts of topics, found some great pictures to use as prompts on the internet and learned that reading a good book can provide lots of great ideas.

Topics Chart

The worst_____ ever (we filled the blank  in with haircut, dinner, day, sleepover)

The best ____ ever ( we filled in the blank with friend, day, time at grandma's )

The hardest thing ever

Oops!

I was so angry

What prompt can you think of?

Good Books

Here is a short list of the books we think have great ideas.  (Each classmate chose a book they thought had a good idea and we ranked our top 5 for this project)

1. Click Clack Moo Cows that Type

2. Moira's Birthday By Robert Munsch

3. Jumanji by Chris Van Allsberg

4. Purple, Green and Yellow by Robert Munsch

5. Imagine a Night by Rob Gonsalves
Internet sites to find pictures and other prompts:

www.fablevision.com/northstar - this site has wonderful posters and pics for starters

www.webenglishteacher.com/creative.html - lists of great ideas, no pictures

Select a search engine of your choice we like google.ca.  Choose images, type your favorite animal and see what comes up, then write about that animal.