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Writing Young Adult and Children's Fiction and Fantasy ArticleWriting Young Adult and Children's Fiction and Fantasy Article
Publisher
Harold D. Underdown
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Grade
9th - 10th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Resource Type
Articles
Audiences
For Administrator Use
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Lexile Measures
1180L
Article

Writing Young Adult and Children's Fiction and Fantasy

Curated by ACT

A great article concerning writing children's literature, especially in the area of fantasy or science fiction. The author provides information concerning how to develop characters, creating literary elements, and discusses some pitfalls in writing for this particular genre.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

children's literature, writing fiction

Additional Tags

fantasy literature, writing children's books, writing fantasy, writing for children, writing science fiction, writing young adult, writing young adult literature, young adult literature, the purple crayon

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

Common Core

W.7.9.a RL.7.9 RL.6.9 W.6.9.a W.7.3.b W.6.3.b W.9-10.3.b RL.8.7

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