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Elementary
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NYS
Code of Ethics for Educators
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Strategies for Written Expression
(adapted from Ralph Fletcher, What A Writer
Needs)
Let
go.
Write about something you love.
Find your own curiosity about words.
Experiment. Take risks.
Be honest.
Use your experience, your personal history.
Use tools: dictionary, reading, other voices.
Give specific examples and descriptions.
Slow down and dive deep.
Understate important truths.
Develop physical aspects of characters.
Capture telling dialogue.
Try a flash-draft.
Have a conversation with your inner voice.
Create immediacy.
Connect endings and beginnings.
Allow ambiguity.
Leave emotional residue.
Identify points of tension.
Describe sense of place.
Be non-linear. Play.
Consider the role of “facts.”
Care.
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