Tag: narrative
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Everybody Has a Story
Republished from the archives because of its relevance to a new crop of students! Enjoy! Personal Narratives are probably the easiest type of writing to do because everyone is full of stories. Maybe the stories in your life aren’t as exciting as Harry Potter’s, as romantic as Bella Swan’s, or as frightening as Anne Frank’s,…
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AID Your Writing
NaNoWriMo is over and I’ve completed my rewrite of On a Wing and a Dare. Whew! How about you? I know that 62 kids, two teachers, and a parent at my school successfully completed a novel in November. They are all proud of what they’ve accomplished, but are learning about December–NaNoEdMo (National Novel Editing Month).…
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Story Arc
All stories have certain elements. If they are missing, you don’t have a story. The most obvious example is CHARACTERS–you must have characters in order to make the events in your story happen. The good news is I have never known a student to leave characters out of a story! Another important element is the…
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Make a Mental Movie
When students are learning to write narratives, either personal or fictional, a common mistake they make is to simply list events in the order that they happened. This may sound organized, but it’s not much of a story. The most important part of the story is missing: the emotion, the sensory details that put a…