Topic: Interesting Writing Assignment

10-second review: How help students write for a purpose? Set up writing situations for businesses that students complete. Example: Write “a document on tsunamis in light of current science and recent events so that a museum in Hawaii can hand it out to tourists.”

Source: B Devet. Teaching English in Two-Year Colleges (May 2005), 411. A publication of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).

Comment: Find out what field trips are planned for elementary and middle schools and prepare background information for the students. RayS.