Build-a-Story - End of Year Creative Writing Project
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Description
A four-step process to scaffold your students into writing their own fictional narratives. Every step comes with its own instructions. This is a 4-day (or more) project if you use all of the resources available. Steps 1, 3, and 4 can be reused throughout the year for students to write multiple stories.
NOTE: Print (PDF) & Digital Access (Google Slides) Included!
Here is the overall breakdown of the product:
"Step 1: Build-a-Story" is a graphic organizer packet to help students brainstorm their story.
"Step 1: Story Springboard" is a story idea packet to scaffold students' understanding and ability to write their own narrative.
"Step 2: How-to-Draft-a-Story" is an instructional packet to show students the difference between a summary and a story. It also provides an example for each major part of a story (beginning/middle/end & exposition/rising action/climax/falling action/resolution).
"Step 3: Draft-a-Story" is a lined packet with instructions and a checklist for students to begin building their story draft. These instructions and checklist go with the story elements that were discussed in Step 2.
"Step 4: Publish-a-Story" is a printable/foldable booklet so that students can create a final make-and-take draft with personalized illustrations.
Includes over 22 pages of content!
Graphic Organizers
- EDITABLE Paragraph Organizers (RACE method)
- Summarizing Graphic Organizer - TLDR
- "News Flash!" - Newspaper Graphic Organizer Handout
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