As the students give their input, draw lines radiating from the central idea and note thelr thoughts within bubbles. Next, model how if you were to write a story about this idea, you might pick the ideas that you could incorporate into your story by starring/marking them. In order not to make students feel left out, you could mark others in another color to symbolize how you could take the story in yet another direction by incorporating other ideas. Group Activity: Using the provided webbing template, tell students that they are going to try webbing two times. First you are giving them a central story idea to write in the upper web’s middle. Explain that students will have thirty seconds only to write down anything that comes to mind as soon as you give that central idea. The ideas should go in any of the surrounding bubbles ~ order does not matter. Next, explain that you are giving them another central idea, This time, they must write down the associated thoughts while making their own radiating lines and/or bubbles. Encourage them to go back and star/mark the ideas which may work the best for a creative story. Wrap-Up: Turn the tables and have the kids give you a prompt for webbing. Ask for a volunteer to think up 2 webbing topic. Ask another volunteer to time you for a minute. As soon as they shout, “Go!” write all you can in a web format to emphasize that more is better in this case! Differentiation: Provide webs with some associate thoughts noted Demonstrate how to “cluster” ideas by elaborating on a thought by noting even more detail (ie., central idea: circus; thought: clown; clustering notes: red nose, white face, big wig),