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Brainstorm with your writing partner or a friend a list of ideas about each topic listed below. Use colors, feelings, smells, appearances, sounds, and tastes.

For Example:

Topic: spring

Ideas: fresh
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rich earth for planting
melting snow
new buds
delicate shoots of green grass
cool breezes
rain showers
tulips

Now you try some brainstorming. See if each topic below can contain images that relate to all five senses (sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing). Write at least five ideas at the <  > angle brackets.

Topic: television

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Topic: gossip

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Topic: victory

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Topic: pets

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Topic: a mountain lion

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Topic: holidays

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Topic: peanut butter

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Topic: airplane travel

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Topic: hunting

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Name and save this file now. (Press ctrl+S, type a name for the file, and press enter.)

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Now try forming the ideas you listed for each topic into a sentence. Remember the example for spring?

Topic: spring

Ideas: fresh
clean
rich earth for planting
melting snow
new buds
delicate shoots of green grass
cool breezes
rain showers
tulips

Here is a sentence about spring that uses some of the ideas from the list:

The air smells fresh and clean as I skip over scattered patches of melting snow on the first day of spring.

Now choose one of the topics above and form some of the ideas you listed into a sentence. Here are the topics: television, gossip, victory, pets, a mountain lion, holidays, peanut butter, airplane travel, hunting.

Type your chosen topic here:

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Now scroll back and copy or retype your list of supporting ideas at the angle brackets below.

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Pick at least three of the supporting ideas from your list and fit them together into a sentence about your topic.

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Now choose a second topic from above and write a sentence about it. Here are the topics again: television, gossip, victory, pets, a mountain lion, holidays, peanut butter, airplane travel, hunting.

Type your second chosen topic here:

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Now scroll back and copy or retype your list of supporting ideas at the marker below.

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Pick at least three of the supporting ideas from your list and fit them together into a sentence about your topic. Remember to add good connecting words and adjectives and adverbs to really make your topic "live" for the reader!

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Now choose a third topic. The topics are: television, gossip, victory, pets, a mountain lion, holidays, peanut butter, airplane travel, hunting.

Type your third chosen topic here:

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Now scroll back and copy or retype your list of supporting ideas at to the marker below.

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Pick at least three of the supporting ideas from your list. Fit them together into a sentence about your topic.

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Now read over your sentences. Which one do you like the best? Why is it your favorite? Share your sentences with a friend or writing partner. Which one do they like best? Why?

On the basis of the feedback you received, as well as your own opinion, do you think you could make one of the three sentences even better? Go back and give it a try! Maybe you could make it a paragraph by writing several sentences on the topic.


If you haven't done so already, name and save this file now. (Press ctrl+S, type a name for the file, and press enter.)

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