How to lead into writing

• Offer some tools for written response: Open-ended questions, prompts, varied forms of written response.

• Use questions that come up during discussion as jumping-off points for writing
• Open-ended questions: "How are you like this character?" or "What do you think will happen next, and why?"
• Prompts: "I wonder...", "I wish ...", "What if ....?"
• Diary entries in the voice of a character/Journal entries
• Cause/effect explanation (answering 'How come?', 'Why?')
• Letters to characters (or from one character to another)
• Sketching or drawing