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One Little Word Expanding your ideas.
Directions Fold a sheet of blank paper into four squares.  Write the answer to each of these questions in the blank squares.
Questions Why is your word important to you?  What does your word mean to you?  How do you think your word can change your life?  If your word were a color, what color would it be? Explain.
More questions Describe how your word sounds when it is said aloud.  What is the opposite of your word? Is your word a verb or a noun? (Does it matter?) What other words does your word remind of you? In other words, where does your word take you?
Organizing your ideas. Moving from ideas to essay.
Just TWO questions Use these two questions to order the information you have just brainstormed.  What does the reader need to know?   What does the reader need to know next?  What does the reader need to know next?  ...
Write your first draft!

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One Little Word

  • 1. One Little Word Expanding your ideas.
  • 2. Directions Fold a sheet of blank paper into four squares. Write the answer to each of these questions in the blank squares.
  • 3. Questions Why is your word important to you? What does your word mean to you? How do you think your word can change your life? If your word were a color, what color would it be? Explain.
  • 4. More questions Describe how your word sounds when it is said aloud. What is the opposite of your word? Is your word a verb or a noun? (Does it matter?) What other words does your word remind of you? In other words, where does your word take you?
  • 5. Organizing your ideas. Moving from ideas to essay.
  • 6. Just TWO questions Use these two questions to order the information you have just brainstormed. What does the reader need to know? What does the reader need to know next? What does the reader need to know next? ...