Give it Meaning
Experience creates realistic writing opportunities
Experiences that students engage in can be created into all types of writing opportunities.
Recount writing (Camp, field trips, holidays)
Creative writing (can you exaggerate an experience)
Experience based poetry
Using your own experiences are a great way to think about descriptive language. This is an example about what the house looked like in an earthquake. At times it can be hard to think about emotion without your own prior knowledge.
The earth shock like the baby's rattle, as the furniture ran around the room like wild horses
The books flew around the house like butterflies
The lamp played hide and seek with the light as the cords danced like a gymnast, until it all stopped
Experience Writing - Camp
As I put one foot into the frosty cold water I straight away hesitate to get into the boat.
“GO!!” Mr Mcnabb yells as everyone zooms off around the camp like a colony of ants after a melted chocolate bar.
I anxiously walked upon the soaked, wet, stinky grass. I looked up and saw the what we were about to do. I felt my heart begin to sink in a bottomless pit as I stared at the target.