In invisible writing, the monitor is turned off, so the student cannot see what is written. The student is forced to concentrate only on ideas without concern for editing. Both freewriting and invisible writing are best used when students are already comfortable with the keyboard. One alternative is to have the student speak his or her ideas while the teacher or another competent typist enters them into the computer. Prompted Writing Teachers can use on-screen questions to prompt their students through the writing process.
Students can write a sentence in response to each of the prompts.
The prompts can later be deleted to leave only the student's responses in the form of a paragraph. In an add-on story, either the teacher or a student begins a story in a new word processing file. Either a sentence or a brief paragraph can be written. Students take turns reading the previously written parts of the story and adding their own sentence or paragraph. When everyone has added a part, the entire story can be printed out and duplicated for the class.