"Getting students to share their ideas can often be a struggle. Students may feel they have nothing to say. Try this Seuss-inspired pre-writing activity to get the juices flowing:
Some of the best ideas may be lurking on the back of notebooks or in the margins. Geisel was a great doodler and saved his many doodles. Horton Hatches the Egg was born from a doodle — a gust from an open window near his desk blew a picture of an elephant drawn on tracing paper on top of a tree that Geisel was doodling. This started him thinking about why an elephant would be in a tree and he had to write Horton's story to find out the answer.
Share this anecdote with students and ask them to save their doodles for a week. At the end of the week, pair up students and their doodles and have them come up with their own combinations to write about. Students can produce a joint work or each write their own ideas about the doodle combo. As some doodles will be more inspired than other, don't limit them as to what they should write — it can be a simple description, a poem, or a story."
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