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College Board

The Departure

For Teachers 8th Standards
Scholars learn about the Hero's Journey as they read Ray Bradbury's "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh." They analyze the story's structure and narrative techniques. Finally, they write summaries of the text's central idea and use their...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Revision Lesson: Re Shaping Narrative Writing

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson, inspired by the novel Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes is a fabulous classroom mentor text that helps teach a very powerful revision strategy: rewriting an idea in a completely different genre. Grimes' book shares short...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Narrative Writing Lesson: Here You Are

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Inspired by Carly Patterson's song, "Here I Am," students will write personal narratives, focusing on one to three experiences in their lives which have shaped them. After filling out a survey about themselves and discussing some of the...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway:writing an Engaging Story With Literary Strategies to Enhance Plot

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A learning module that teaches students about writing a short story with a strong plot in seven mini-lessons: Introduction, Choose the Point of View, Figure Out What to Say, Suspend Readers in Midair, Write about a Central Theme, Read A...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway:writing an Engaging Story With Literary Strategies to Enhance Plot

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Narrative Essay Assignments

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A number of narrative essay assignments are provided in this discussion. Assignments are provided to help scaffold the narrative essay writing process.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning:ninth Grade Lit and Comp: Introduction to Personal Narrative

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson is an introduction to a unit on personal narratives including the characteristics of a personal narrative: tells a story, events are in chronological order, and it has characters, setting, and plot. Click next at the bottom...
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Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Change the View: Retell a Narrative Through Different Eyes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Read a short story by Kate Chopin titled "The Story of an Hour." Review the elements of a narrative and the point of view of the narrator. Then, create the final product of the module, a narrative written from a different point of view.
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Other

Re:fiction: Making Ends Meet: How to Write a Good Ending to a Story

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
This article from Re:Fiction magazine offers tips on different ways to end a piece of narrative writing.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Teaching: Prewriting and Planning Personal Narratives

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on prewriting and planning a personal narrative. The information can be used in all types of writing. It discusses brainstorming ideas, narrowing the focus, and developing the central idea. W.9-10.5 Writing Process,...
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Essay Writing Rubrics

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of essay assessment rubrics are provide on this learning module. Several rubrics for narrative essays, persuasive essays, and research papers are provided on this site.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Graphic Organizers for Teaching Writing

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools collection provides graphic organizers for writing. Elaborate graphic organizers for the following areas are provided: persuasive essays, expository essays, paragraph writing, fiction pieces, narrative writing,...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Revision Lesson: Introductory Prepositions and Series of Three

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
After giving students the writing topic "A Special Day that I Remember, give students ten to fifteen minutes to write on the topic. Then tell them they will be revising their "Special Day" prompt writing, but first they will listen to...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Revision Lesson: Analyzing First Words and Sentence Length

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
After young scholars are given time to think about the topic -"Alone Time with an Adult I Care about," they are given ten to fifteen minutes to write between five and ten sentences on the topic. They ten are told they will revise their...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Differentiated Narrative Lesson: Two Safe Frame Choices

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This lesson is based on two narrative picture books that can be compared and contrasted: When I was Five by Arthur Howard and Jamie Lee Curtis' When I Was Little: A Four-Year-Old's Memoir of her Youth. Students will need to think about...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Writing Activity: Harris Burdick Stories

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
After reading The Mysteries of Harris Burdick, by Chris Van Allsburg, learners create their own stories about the pictures. By navigating the Internet, students learn more about the writing process to help them create their stories.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Organizing a Story With Purposeful Paragraphs

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students organize and design a narrative based on three developing ideas.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Fortune and Mis Fortune

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this RAFTS lesson students read W. W. Jacobs' "The Monkey's Paw" and then complete a grammar activity, or use the interactive fortune creator, to develop a writing prompt for a short essay about the fate or luck involved with their...
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Fiction Writing Basics

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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
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Other

Writing for Audio Theatre: Radio Drama Script Template

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Great site if you want to learn how to write a radio drama sketch. The site offers lots of examples and pointers for the beginner. W.9-10.3a Narrative Intro, W.11-12.3a Narratives
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How to Write Descriptively

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The point of fiction is to cast a spell, a momentary illusion that you are living in the world of the story. But how do writers suck readers into stories in this way? Nalo Hopkinson shares some tips for how to use language to make your...
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Quia

Quia: Narrative Structure Elements

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
This reading resource provides vocabulary words with definitions. All words are related to the elements of narratives. A link to associated review activities is included.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Suggestions for Memoirs: A Letter & Memoir About a Teacher

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
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...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Narrative Pyramid

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
A printable narrative pyramid where students can record information about a story including the character, setting, problem, main events, and solution. Directions on how to use this type of graphic organize as well as lists of teaching...

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