The other students in the group get to ask curious questions after the story is told. The students can write their questions on scraps of paper or they say them out loud and the teacher can write them on a piece of paper. Curious questions are not fix it questions which try to correct the story but simply wondering 2. Read your questions and listen for the ones which intrigue you. Try turning a question into a new lead for the story.
Share leads with each other.
Talk about how questions can help a writer find an angle or focus on a story. Brenda Ueland says, when we are listened to ideas unfold and expand inside us. Barry Lane 1. Questions can help us find potatoes in factual writing. Next time you assign a research paper have your students get in groups and ask curious questions about their individual subjects.