I was reading about literacy activities and stumbled on snowball stories. Students write the start of a story in response to a prompt. Then, when the allocated writing time has expired, they scrunch up the paper and throw it towards the front of the class. Students then rush to the front, selecting a snowball. They write the next phase of the story. The process then repeats until the stories are finished. Teachers should endeavour to provide an engaging writing prompt, and should scaffold the expectations for each phase of the story.
Teachers could also extend/challenge students by offering stipulations regarding a secondary character that the protagonist must encounter (for example, a man in a frayed green cardigan), an object that must be introduced at a particular point in the narrative, or a line of dialogue that must be plausibly incorporated.
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