Teaching Detail and Development

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These activities involve individual writers, but you could turn them into classwide activities by having students read their work out loud, or by collecting and reading some of their paragraphs as a basis for class discussion about effective detail. In this way the activities involve both individual skills-building as well as establishing greater classwide camaraderie.

• Cookie Exercise
• World Without Adjectives Exercise
• Mystery Person Contest