Writers have a plan
Writers need a plan. A plan helps them organize their piece.
Show
children a recipe book. If a chef wants to create a delicious dessert he must have a plan. He needs to figure
out how much of each ingredient he needs and in what order he should put them into the bowl, what temperature he will bake
it at, etc.
Writers need a plan too. It's like a recipe. We need to decide what
our setting will be and who the characters will be. We need to decide what genre we are writing and how we are going
to put all the details together to make a masterpiece.
If a chef just went into the kitchen
and started putting ingredients together without planning then the dessert would probably not taste good. Who wants
mustard in their cookies?
Writers are like chefs. They need to plan their writing. We
are going to be learning how to plan and organize our writing to make it delicious to the reader's brain.
Let's
talk about what you think organizing means and create a list of things we want to learn about as we explore organization.
