Strategies to Help Students Generate New Writing Ideas

Are you guilty of spoon feeding your students ideas for what to write? I’m right there with you! We have all done it. We all have those students who just sit there, stare at the wall and say, “I don’t know what to write.” Often we just intend to give them a quick idea or two as a spring board for their writing pieces, but more often than not, we can find ourselves verbally writing the whole piece for them. Of course we do it because we just want them to be successful. We d...