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How to Write a Story, Grades 4-6

by Evan-Moor Educational Publishers

A structured toolkit for teaching story writing

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A structured toolkit for teaching story writing

Organized as a sequence of instructional stages, this resource moves from recognizing characters, settings, plots, and conclusions to planning and drafting original stories. Story plans, graphic organizers, outlines, question-and-answer lists, and story webs offer several ways to shape ideas before writing. Later sections introduce realistic and historical fiction, mystery, adventure, fantasy, and science fiction, then provide templates for illustrating and presenting finished work. Writing and publishing center materials—including prompts and character and setting lists—extend the activities toward independent work. The approach connects story-making with sentence skills and conventions, voice, ideas, word choice, fluency, and organization.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teachers working with students in grades 4–6 who want structured story-writing activities.
  • Educators seeking planning forms and prompts for classroom writing or independent work.
  • Teachers introducing students to several fiction genres and story presentation.

Themes

Story structureWriting instructionStory planningFiction genresPresentation and publishing

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Book overview

How to Write a Story, Grades 4-6 is packed with easy-to-do ideas and dozens of writing forms that help students improve their sentence writing skills.

Part I: Learn the Parts of a Story

  • Students learn to identify and develop characters, settings, plots, and conclusions of stories.
  • Activities are presented in a scaffolded format; choose those most appropriate for your students.
  • Activities include identifying the parts of a story in literature, describing and illustrating the parts of a story, and writing their own story parts.
  • At the end of this section, students combine what they have learned and created to write an original story.

    • Part II: Write a Story Step by Step

    • Forms are provided to guide students to write a story step by step.
    • From story plan sheets and graphic organizers to a conclusion page, this section makes your job easier!

    Part III: Additional Story-Planning Forms

    • Forms for an outline, a question and answer list, and a story web provide even more ways for students to plan stories.

    Part IV: Write in Different Genres

    • After students have mastered the parts of a story and the steps for writing a story, challenge them to write in specific genres!
    • Teaching suggestions and guided directions for students are included for realistic fiction, historical fiction, mystery, adventure, fantasy, and science fiction stories.

    Part V: Presentation

    • Encourage students' creativity with reproducible templates to create and illustrate final copies of stories.

    Part VI: Writing and Publishing Centers

    • The Writing Center contains materials to encourage independent story writing. Story prompt cards, character and setting lists, and charts for writing in specific genres will cure even the most difficult case of writer's block.
    • The Publishing Center is a place where students can find various materials for the illustrations and covers, as well as the final copy templates in this book.

    Trait-Based Writing:

    How to Write a Story fits perfectly if you're using trait-based writing! When your students use this book, they focus on these important writing skills:

    • conventions
    • voice
    • ideas
    • word choice
    • sentence fluency
    • organization

    About Evan-Moor

    A leader in PreK-8 educational publishing, Evan-Moor has been a trusted partner of teachers and parents for over 40 years. Our mission is helping children learn, and we do this by creating resources that motivate children to learn important skills and concepts across the curriculum while also inspiring a love of learning.

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