Developing general knowledge and providing ideas for writing through non-fiction video clips
Focus: using current events and themes to motivate students for writing
During one of our 2018 writing workshops at Taylors Lakes Primary in Melbourne, Emma Herbert shared this fantastic vocabulary display idea that could be used to support students to select more descriptive words.
Emma's display is based on The Hamburger Model: Generic structure of most text types found on page 28 of The Writing Book. Using the hamburger concept, Emma posed the following question to her students:
'Can you add fries to your burger to make your writing more interesting?'
Developing general knowledge and providing ideas for writing through non-fiction video clips
Focus: using current events and themes to motivate students for writing
Focus: using a TED-Ed clip to support students to generate ideas for writing, using a range of text types
for inspiration and ideas
