Summer Writing: On an Adventure!

Today marks the anniversary of the day that Christopher Columbus set sail on his first voyage. He set sail from Spain to find an all-water route to Asia. Well, we all know he didn't end up in Asia! Instead, he landed on an island in the Bahamas. The rest, as they say, is history.

This week have your little darlings write a page or a paragraph (depending upon age) about an adventure. Ahoy, Matey!

Writing Topic
On an adventure!

Writing Tools

For very young writers:

·                     Provide a pencil and lined paper

For growing and older writers:

·                     Provide a pen and wide- or college-ruled notebook paper or a laptop/PC

Writing Prompts

For very young writers:

·                     Have your little writers think about an adventure they have been on or an adventure they would like to take. An imagination is the best tool for this assignment if your young writers are going to conjure up an adventure! Help them write down some words and phrases before putting them into paragraph form.  

For growing and older writers:

·                 Older students can draw on a real life adventure, but an imagined one might be a little more exciting. Have writers brainstorm about an imagined adventure. For brainstorming, a blank piece of paper with a circle in the middle will suffice. Draw the circle (not to cover the entire sheet) and write the name of an adventure. Then, outside the circle, words and phrases that come to mind about the imaginary adventure should be jotted down. 

·                 After the brainstorming session, have your older writers get busy writing a one page adventure description. Very enthusiastic writers might want to make the description into a story. Let them go for it! 

Set your little darlings free and allow them to write from the heart!

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