Download - Generate Ideas for Writing Topics
Ideas or Seeds
Essential Question:How do writers find their topics?
Brainstorming Ideas for Selecting a Topic
1. Pick topics you know a lot about.
2.Pick topics that hold strong feelings or you care deeply about.
3.Pick topics that your reader will find interesting too.
Real writing has its roots in everyday experiences. Often the best idea lies within you.
Create an Authority List•Notice the small word “author” tucked inside. Having some authority on a subject suggests you could write about it.
•To be an authority means you know something about that subject. (You don’t have to know everything about it).
•You could ask yourself a few questions:What am I good at? What are some things I know how to do?
Authority List
• being a middle child
• saying good-bye to a pet
• growing a butterfly garden
• collecting rocks
• hiking along trails
Heart MapThe rule is simple. The more important a thing, person or idea is to the writer, the closer to the middle of the heart it is placed.
Here is an example:
๏Heart Map - Scholastic
What’s special in your life? Fill this heart with people, places and memories that are most important to you.
http://www2.scholastic.com/content/collateral_resources/pdf/h/HPLesson1_Final.pdf
Writer ’s EyeStart a collection of the people, places, games,
hobbies, interests that you know well.
Create a poster of your writing ideas for your own Writer’s Notebook using the following websites:
http://www.wordle.net/ http://www.tagxedo.com/app.html
Write aboutwhat makes
you different.
~Sandra Cisneros