Write about a dream

This exercise is great for getting students to write, and it is particularly useful for those who are reluctant to write. Encourage them to let the writing flow. In a dream the images and events flow in seemingly haphazard order. Encourage them to play around with sentences. In a dream anything can happen. You can fly, you can jump from one place to another. You can jump from one time zone to another. Things dissolve into each other. Everything is a bit surreal. There is something about the nature of a dream that allows a free flow style and is good fun. I find that if you read your students the example dream then encourage them to write about their own dreams you will get some extraordinary work.