Essential Lessons to Accelerate Student Writing
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NOTE NARRATIVE NON-NEGOTIABLES
Target essential skills
Plan narrative-writing experiences.
Narrative writing has a place in the ELA standards and in the real world.
Narrative writing in real-world careers
Define the shape of stories
Clarify story versus description.
Introduce Setup, Mix-up, Fix-up and provide writing templates for primary students.
Identify the planning tool your students are most familiar with.
Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Then
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Start with the middle
Plan the character’s problem and solution.
Plan the beginning last
Orient the reader with a beginning.
Provide only the most essential character and setting details.
GRADE 3 | View the complete mini-lesson and follow-up activity.
Generate narrative-writing tasks
Move beyond personal narratives.
Expose students to four types of narrative-writing tasks that are all rooted in reading.
Comprehend the original text.
Continue the story following a similar plot.
Rewrite the same basic plot.
Rewrite the story from a different perspective.
Fractured Fairy Tales for Rewrite from a different point of view
After the Fall for Continue the story |
We Forgot Brock for Insert the Missing Page
Experiment with less common narratives.
Insert a missing part or page.
Write fiction based on fact.
