How to Write a Story makes it easy to develop confident, competent storywriters. There are lessons and reproducibles to help students learn the parts of a story, reproducible planning forms, and guidelines for writing in six different genres.
How to Write a Story, includes:
Setting the Stage for Writing-reading to your class, word walls, story walls
Teaching the Parts of a Story
Step-by-Step Writing Units
Story Writing Ideas:
retell a fairy tale
a pattern story
a circle story
a sequence-and-write story
A Story Writing Center: directions, forms, and patterns for 5 story-writing centers
Who, What, Where, When
Start with a Picture
Story Starters
Story Parts
Train Tales—each train car represents a different part of the story
This resource contains teacher support pages, reproducible student pages, and an answer key.
