1. Introduce course

a. Determining age group

b. Determining fiction/non-fiction, short stories, books, picture books

c. Word usage appropriate for age group

2. Refer to resource books an magazines and allow everyone to look through them

3. Clustering for Ideas (Introduce clustering)

a. Picking and choosing words for subject matter

b. Relating to childhood from some cluster words

c. Working from a memory to construct a story.

4. Do’s and Don’ts for Writing for Children (Frequently Asked Questions)

5. Experiences from childhood are wonderful for ideas. Take an experience and twist it into another experience, changing the characters, setting, and plot (Handout Writing Exercise)

6. Question and Answer Period before beginning