logo
Writing Features
& Descriptions
General Writing
Challenge Areas
How can the arts
help student writers.

Focus

Topic or subject established by the writer in response to the writing task

Some student writers need help to explore and explode topics in prewriting.

Some students need help to narrow focus and identify their audience and purpose.

How can the arts help student writers

  • Generate or brainstorm ideas?
  • Focus or frame their brainstormed ideas?
  • Evaluate the importance of ideas for relevance to the focus of their compositions?
  • Re-focus and revise writing that has lost focus?

Available Lessons

Act out the endings

Word version      PDF version

Visualizing the Writing Process Through Visual Art

Word version     PDF version

Gallery of Purposes

Word version      PDF version

The giving tree sequencing

Word version      PDF version

Pull it out of a Hat

Word version      PDF version

Act Out the Endings

Word version      PDF version

Verb Focused Figures

Word version      PDF version

Freeze Frame Focus

Word version      PDF version