This Prompt's Title:

The Crazy Animal Game for Kids

carefully choosing details to share so that a reader sees a picture in his/her mind

What details would you use to describe this crazy monkey?

Ideas for Teachers from Teachers
How do you teach young writers to carefully select details to share?

Example Blurb: There are a lot of great stories about animals that act a little crazy or odd. I'm particular to Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery because the authors do a great job of using details that are memorable...long after you stop reading it aloud. Ask your students, "What makes those details so memorable?" and then challenge them to think with those types of details when they write their Crazy Animal Stories.

--Corbett Harrison, Reno, Nevada

I use old greeting cards or calendars that have very obvious differences for example one with Christmas trees, one with monkeys, one with little children.  Then I break up the class into teams to write a description of one of the pictures.  The team that writes the best description wins a point.  As students become better at this skill, I make the pictures more and more similar, for example all mountain photos.  Students will start to see that the clearer their description and the more details they use the more likely their team is to score points.

-- Stacy Dibble, Worthington, Minnesota

(Stacy chose a Going Deep with Compare and Contrast Thinking Guide as her gift for sharing this blurb.)

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