Peace Corps
Peace Corps: Narrative Cartoons
Using the communicative means of cartooning, learners examine essays from various Peace Corps volunteers and recount them by writing their own cartoons.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway:writing an Engaging Story With Literary Strategies to Enhance Plot
You will be able to use various literary strategies and devices, including dialogue and suspense, to enhance the plot in a short story. W.11-12.3b Narratives
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Writing to a Particular Audience and Purpose English Iii Writing
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn various rhetorical strategies you can use in writing for a particular audience and purpose.
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New York Times
New York Times: 650 Prompts for Narrative and Personal Writing [Pdf]
A wonderful collection of 650 writing prompts organized into categories and issues, e.g., role models, family, memories, race, gender, sexuality, social media, etc. Each prompt is linked to an article on that topic. W.9-10.10 Write...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Generate Ideas and Questions
This lesson focuses on the writing in high school. Whether you write expository and persuasive essays or short stories, your first steps are to determine and define your audience. After that, you will begin to generate ideas and...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Becoming a Critical Listener (English Iii Listening)
Learning to listen critically and extract the essence of a presentation will prepare you for college or a job. In this lesson, you'll learn and practice how to become a critical listener.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Understanding Literary Text: Point of View and Tone
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] A learning module that teaches students about point of view and tone in six mini-lessons: Introduction, Reviewing Point of View and Tone, Unreliable Narrators, Third-Person...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Out of Proportion
Students are asked to explain how natural disasters affect environmental health.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Fiction Writing Basics
This resource discusses some terms and techniques that are useful to the beginning and intermediate fiction writer, and to instructors who are teaching fiction at these levels. W.11-12.3a Narratives
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: The Sum of Its Parts
Inspired by Julianna's understanding (from the novel Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen) that "A painting is more than the sum of its parts," students will describe a memorable place that evokes a certain feeling or emotion. Students will...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Your Own Faraway Place
In this lesson, students will build background by hearing an excerpt from The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster, an excerpt where the main character, Milo, travels to a distant land that has a distinctive mood: melancholy. Next,...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Puns and Punctuation
A Writer's Workshop idea in which students learn to use and punctuate adverbs and specific dialogue to create puns called Tom Swifties. Teacher instructions, student instructions, and student writing samples are provided, as well as an...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Picture Book Writing Lesson: Start With What Isn't There
In this lesson plan, students will describe a setting, attempting to set a mood for their readers in two paragraphs. Borrowing a technique from Stephen Kramer's two-page introduction to Caves, they will begin with a paragraph that...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Creating a Second Person Choice Story
This activity is designed to help students understand plot dimensions and literary devices while writing a multi-faceted short story that has many possible outcomes. For inspiration, students will analyze songs that tell stories for both...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Put 'Em on a Talk Show
In this lesson, learners will write a script for a talk show, based on character traits from fairy tale stories. Scripts will be rehearsed, costumed, and performed in front of the class.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Chapter Book Writing Lesson: Creating a Parallel World
Inspired by the opening events in The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman, learners are asked to create an original parallel world that is similar to ours but different in certain ways. They will focus on the similarities and differences...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Small Moment With an Important Person
A writer's workshop idea where students brainstorm a list of people who are important to them as well as one or two times they remember being with each person. Students then use these ideas to write about a small moment with someone who...
Other
Indiana Univerisity of Pennsylvania: Writing Center: Descriptive Writing
This website from the Writing Center at Indiana Univerisity of Pennsylvania focuses on descriptive writing. It includes discussion and examples of the following: Creating a dominant impression or mood, using sensory details, using vivid...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: I Can Analyze a Story or History [Pdf]
This graphic organizer can be used to help students analyze a story or a historical event. Students will look closely at the story's characters or people involved in the historical event. Then they will summarize the story or event, and...
Other
San State Francisco University: Newsworx (1001 Words)
View the media-rich work of teams of student journalists assigned to produce high-interest feature stories using pictures, audio, and words. Learn how to tell a story well by thinking critically about the different choices made by each...
University of Victoria (Canada)
The U Vic Writer's Guide: Literary Term: Point of View
From the University of Victoria's writing tutorial site, this section provides a multiple-paragraph discussion of point of view.
Other
News Lab: Elements of Great Storytelling
This is a great site for broadcast journalists; it focuses on the elements that make a story great. You can find tips on writing from some of the top people in the industry.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Narrator Chart [Pdf]
Provides an overview of the importance of a narrator in a text and some brief exercises for analysis. Helps students learn more about the role of the narrator in literature, his/her voice, and influence on other characters and events.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Counting Up or Down Stories
The writer will brainstorm situations where individuals or people in a group count up or count down out loud together. Using the ending of chapter 5 of Wringer by Jerry Spinelli as a model, the writer will plan a story where someone (or...