Suggested Looking/Writing Activities

• Narrative Writing
  Narrative writing tells a story or part of a story. It can be fictional or nonfictional.
• Descriptive Writing
  Descriptive writing vividly portrays a person, place, or thing in such a way that the reader can visualize the topic and enter into the writer’s experience.
• Poetry
  Poetry uses evocative language and form to communicate an idea or an experience. There are a wide variety of structures and forms of poetry.
  For examples of poetic forms, please see The Teachers & Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms (see Bibliography).
• Expository Writing
  Expository writing seeks to inform, explain, clarify, define, or instruct.
• Persuasive Writing
  Persuasive writing intends to convince the reader of a stated opinion or belief.
• Prompts for Free Writing
  Free writing is a prewriting technique that helps generate ideas. When given a prompt, the author writes continuously about whatever comes to his or her mind without regard for spelling, grammar, or organization.