writing essentials: genre-based writing instruction
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NOTE NARRATIVE NON-NEGOTIABLES
Links to Assignments in Writable
Elementary Course Assignments
Middle School Course Assignments
High School Course Assignments
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 Set up, 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
PDF | Google Slide | Jamboard
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.
