Imagine That! Playing with Genre through Newspapers and Short Stories

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Qualities of Newspaper Articles (.pdf)
Short Story Prewriting (.pdf)
Story Outline Rubric (.pdf)
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Middle schoolers develop both narrative and expository writing skills. They do this by condensing a short story into a newspaper article and expanding a newspaper article into a short story.

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Concepts

Narrative Writing, narratives, Expository Writing, Writing

Additional Tags

Expository Writing, english language arts

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Resource Details

Grade

6th - 8th

Subjects

English Language Arts

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Resource Type

Lesson Plans

Audience

For Teacher Use

Duration

3 days

Instructional Strategies

Collaborative Learning

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Year

2026

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