Encourage young writers to tell their stories with a fun format. The title page provides space for a picture, author's name, and illustrator's name. Next, a story page includes lines for a short story, and a final page announces the end of the story.

Concepts

story writing, parts of a book

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Print several copies of the middle page to allow for longer stories
• Have kids draw an important picture for the story on the title page, or have them include a photograph if they are writing an autobiography
• Bind the books and present to parents during Open House

Pros

• Format is adaptable to any kind of story in your classroom, as well as to any age level
• Easy to print and copy

Cons

• None