543. Starting to write stories

One day teacher of English B said to teacher of English A, “I’m trying to give you a way to teach your students to learn how to write compositions. On post # 538 we talked about composing texts. Now, you can assist your students to write sentences separated by periods. I mean, one sentence conveys a chunk of the general message. The next sentence another piece. In this way we are making the whole message, with cohesion. You can practice this in the class by writing a text on the board, by all of you, while you are explaining this thing of expressing a message, a clear one for a virtual reader to understand what you all wrote. You can write a scary story, and you teacher provide the first sentence, which one creates some kind of climax or suspense. They like this. Later on, you can teach them sentence linkers.” / Photo from: Gene Kelly, in unforgettable 1952 Singin’ in the Rain.