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Let It Pour!

Brainstorm your way to a flood of ideas.

Suppose your teacher starts the school year by giving you this assignment:

School’s out from June to September, but learning

happens all year long! Write 3 to 5 paragraphs about

something you learned over summer vacation.

Great! You went to summer camp, and you learned some new skills and made

new friends. Plus, you spent a week with your grandpa, who taught you his

favorite card games. You’ve got so many possibilities!

Brainstorming helps you choose a topic from all those possibilities and develop

ideas for your writing projects. When you brainstorm, you scribble your thoughts

quickly, without worrying about being neat or writing in complete sentences or

wondering if they are good ideas. Just write down as many ideas as you can.

Check out the brainstorming techniques on the next few pages, and try one,

two, or all three!