This 177-page guide provides teachers with strategies and graphic organizers to train students on the composing of both personal and fictional narratives. With the help of this guide, train students how to organize and produce rich personal narratives about events, people, places, and things that have impacted their lives. Train students how to create imaginative yet focused fictional narratives that include topic discovery, setting, point of view, back story, conflict, and resolution.
This curriculum guide provides over 100 prompts, sample essays, rubrics, and most importantly, models of the process in a gradual release approach to teaching the art and science of writing. Guide: 145 pages Graphic Organizers: 32 pages