Discuss how you would teach your students to include more description and detail in their story writing
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: Students can use six questions to add more details to their stories. By reading their stories and answering these questions, students can see what they can add to or remove from their writing. The six questions are: Who, What, Where, When, Why, How? For instance the students should ask:
1. Who is in the story? What do they look like? How do they act?
2 What happens in the story? What do the characters do? What events take place?
3. When does the story happen?
4. Where does the story happen? How would you describe where it happens?
5. How does action in the story take place? How is the problem solved? What ends the story?
6. Why does the story take place? Why do the characters do what they do? Why does the story end as it does? Also, the teacher should help the students learn about details and descriptions by listening to and reading stories that have excellent examples of each. Then, using the examples as models, the students create group- or class-constructed stories with details and description modeled after the stories. Students also write stories incorporating details and description they learned from the model stories.
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