Tag: fiction
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Distillation and Transplantation
Teaching early writers to transform lived experience into fiction.
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Better Brainstorming
Teaching early writers to generate ideas for fiction.
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A Novel Idea
How a reading specialist used fiction writing to instill confidence in her students.
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Write Your Own Lord of the Flies with Dyslexia
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The Semester-Long Story
Nurturing perseverance & a sense of exploration.
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Show and Don’t Tell
Using flash fiction to teach personal narrative.
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Canon in a Flash
Reshaping the canon with flash fiction in the creative writing classroom.
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National Novel Writing Month & the Tale of the Indian Kids
The power of telling your own story for National Novel Writing Month.
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The Moment When . . .
In this lesson plan, photographs are used to explore point of view in fiction writing.
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Flash Nonfiction as an Introduction to Writing Modes
Preparing students for explanatory, persuasive, and analytical composition.
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Connecting the Written and Visual
Using visuals to introduce writing modes to students.
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Other Portraits
by Mikaela (8th grade)
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Completing the Character Puzzle with Vignettes
A lesson for creating vibrant, well-crafted characters.
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Everybody Writes!
We Write the Myths
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Everybody Writes!
It's a Mystery...
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Everybody Writes!
In the Jungle
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As If We Were Gods
An Anthology of Student Writing
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I Am Here To Win
Anthology of Writing
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Interview with Kevin Young
From a Place that is Necessary and Almost Unspoken
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Language and War
A unit plan for English class.
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Shaping Longer Works of Fiction
Novel Writing for a Classroom & Adults
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The Backward Prompt
Using Great First Lines from Literature to Invent Your Own Way Forward
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Civil War Allegory
Elicit creative and critical responses to the history of the Civil War
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Fantasy with Fifth-Graders
Intro to Fantasy