Ads are videotaped in class. This shopping mall simulation activity emphasizes point of view as a component of fiction and non-fiction writing. This might also be an interesting activity to show the different perspectives of eyewitness accounts. The resulting word list can become a personalized or classroom creative word bank that students can use in their writing. This lesson explains how students can practice developing character traits and dialogue as they write in pairs at the computer.
Students take turns following a scenario given by the teacher.
Examples help to explain how this activity works. Here is the place for kids to publish their writing for readers all over the Internet to read and enjoy. This page leads you directly to the on-line submission form. The home page has links to older stories, newest stories, publisher's favorites, a list of schools who submit to Kid Pub, and an on-going story for which you can write the next paragraph.