Squishy Not Slick

try this: spinning top writing

1. Buy or find a top.
2. Have students think about an answer to a question or prompt.
3. Spin the top.
4. Have them write their answer while the top spins.
5. The top spins.
6. They write.
7. The top stops.
8. They stop.
9. They share their responses.

Writers use all kinds of strange methods to trick their brains into writing sentences. Some of these tricks help students to do the hard work of writing sentences in class. This might be one of them.

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