Paper Lightning

Paper Lightning: Prewriting Activities That Spark Creativity and Help Students Write Effectively, by award-winning children's book author Darcy Pattison, helps students generate ideas, plan, and choose words effectively.

Whether you teach fiction or nonfiction, you will find just the right prewriting activity in this useful book for nearly all modes of writing--descriptive, expository, narrative, informational, persuasive, and more.

The activities go beyond visual organizing and include a greater variety of prewriting exercises, including storytelling, group work, hands-on organizing, brainstorming, etc.