Where Good Ideas Begin

In class, I learned of a classroom writing activity called Freewriting Frenzy that assists students with generating ideas and organizing them. In my opinion, it even helps them to think more deeply about a topic before they start writing.

Freewriting Frenzy can be used when prewriting/brainstorming.

This activity uses four (4) steps:

WRITE - Students write down every idea they think about without worrying about if it is right or if it is good enough to be used.
ORGANIZE - Students group similar ideas together by highlighting or colouring in order for them to see patterns.
LINK - Students think about why their ideas belong together and they identify the connections between them/how they are related.
EXPAND - Students deepen their ideas by adding new information. This can be done by researching, doing literature reviews (consider authors that have written on your topic) so that they can use them as models for writing.

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