a) Each student writes a sentence at the top of a sheet of paper and passes it on to the next person.
b) The next student writes an ensuing sentence which contains at least one word that was chosen (“picked” from the previous sentence. This word will be underlined. The paper is then passed on to the next student, who repeats the process by including any one word from the previous student’s sentence.
c) The process continues around the class or group until everyone has had each piece of paper.
Variant: Picked word stories can also be written alone. The important thing is to ensure that the student uses one word in each sentence that was picked from the previous sentence.