University of Oregon
Pizzaz, Creative Writing and Storytelling: Magazine Marvels
This PIZZAZ lesson allows students the opportunity to write stories about magazine picture collections. Two examples of creative writing pieces are provided.
University of Oregon
Pizzaz, Creative Writing & Storytelling: Storytelling Boxes
This PIZZAZ lesson allows students the opportunity to engage in the small group task of audio-storytelling or video storytelling, after being given a shoebox filled with symbols and unique items.
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Writing Fix
Writing Fix: 6 Trait Post It Notes for Revision and Editing [Pdf]
This is a printable PDF template page for 6 Trait Post-it Notes for Revision and Editing for descriptive and narrative writing.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Suggestions for Writing Memoirs: Memories of a Pet or Object
This lesson, inspired by Gary Paulsen's My Life in Dog Years, helps learners write memoirs or narratives about their lives through the eyes of a pet, a favorite pair of jeans, or their shoes. Students choose one item that is very close...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Suggestions for Writing Memoirs: Visualizing Memorable Details
Using the memoir The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros as a model, students focus on the details of their lives like their name and where they are from to write memoirs.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Suggestions for Memoirs: A Letter & Memoir About a Teacher
After reading the book, Thank You, Mr. Falker by Patricia Palacco, which is about a teacher helping a student overcome a long struggle to learn to read, young scholars write a personal thank you letter to a teacher who helped them. Then...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Word Game for Kids: The Memory Game for Kids
Young writers brainstorm three sensory details about a personal memory before writing about it. If they need help with a memory, they can click the magic button to help spark their memory. Their writing should include sensory details.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix:left Brained Writing Prompt: Mini Workshop:favorite Person & Song
Do you have a favorite person--a friend or a family member? Do you have a favorite song? Think about putting your favorite person and your favorite song together in a fictional scene. Make an interesting piece of writing by using really...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Make Your Own Captain Underpants Comic
Create a Captain Underpants comic by choosing characters, dialogue, objects, and backgrounds on a series of four slides. Then view the comic and email it to a friend. Requires Adobe Flash.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Story Maps
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides six story-map graphic organizers.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: 6 Traits Post It Notes for Revision and Editing [Pdf]
This is a printable page of checklists that students can use during revision and editing of descriptive and narrative writing.
EL Education
El Education: A Beaver Story
This children's book about beavers was written and illustrated by 6th graders after extensive field research with experts in the field. The book is unique in that it offers a continuous fictional narrative at the top of each page, an...
EL Education
El Education: Diseased
This fictionalized journal was created by a high school student in Denver, Colorado. It tells the haunting story, through a combination of text and images, of a young woman who is stricken with tuberculosis (and later HIV). This...
EL Education
El Education: Dwarf Dwelling
A student from a 5th/6th grade classroom in Shutesbury, Massachusetts, created this illustration of a dwarf dwelling as part of a Learning expedition on architecture. The task given to students was to create a prehistoric cave home in...
EL Education
El Education: Fanta
8th grade students in Fort Collins, Colorado each created a historical character file (HCF) as part of a Learning Expedition on slavery. Each HCF is a fictionalized account of an historically/geographically accurate character. Each file...
EL Education
El Education: A Walk Through Highland Park
This book was created by 2nd grade students in Rochester, New York as part of a three-month learning expedition on animals and habitats called, "A Walk Through Highland Park. Students spent time in their local park doing fieldwork making...
EL Education
El Education: An a to Z Book of Homelessness
This ABC book about the lives of homeless people was created by 3rd and 4th grade students in Washington, D.C. The class took part in a Learning Expedition about homelessness in part because students walked by homeless individuals on...
TES Global
Blendspace: Digital Storytelling
Links to eight different online storytelling websites available for free student use followed by an assessment.
TES Global
Blendspace: Narrative Writing
An eighteen-part learning module with links to images and websites to use while learning to write a narrative text.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Is It Narrative or Is It Expository?
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart gives students the opportunity to practice with the differences between narrative and expository prompts.
Can Teach
Can Teach: Word by Word a Story Game
For grades 1 to 3, this game has students write a story by focusing on the word choice.
Other
Make Beliefs Comix: Create Your Own Comic
Create a three frame comic strip by choosing backgrounds, characters, and objects. Add original dialogue or thoughts, review the comic, and then print or email it to share.
Other
Robert J. Sawyer: Writing Workshops
This site features a list of columns written by Robert Sawyer. They include: Great Beginnings, Point of View, Constructing Characters, Show, Don't Tell, Description, Research, and more. W.9-10.3, 3a, 3b, 3c, 3e Narratives, W.11-12.3, 3a,...