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.