How to Write a Story makes it easy to develop confident, competent storywriters. There are lessons and reproducible 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 and reproducible student pages. This is a reproducible resource (photocopying of lessons is permitted) for single classroom or individual home use only.

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