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Story Crafting Arlene F. Marks

Story Crafting By Arlene F. Marks

Story Crafting by Arlene F. Marks


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Story Crafting: Classroom-Ready Materials for Teaching Fiction Writing Skills in the High School Grades by Arlene F. Marks

The Literacy: Made for All series is a classroom-ready, teacher-friendly resource for English and Writing teachers of Grades 9 through 12. Organized buffet style, it is designed to complement an existing English curriculum by providing a tested repertoire of strategies for teaching both writing skills and literary analysis techniques. STORY CRAFTING focuses on the creation, editing, polishing and sharing of short stories and longer prose fiction. Benefits and Features: *tested and proven effective at all learning levels, from Remedial to Pre-AP *provides complete lesson plans including reproducible materials *can be implemented as is or modified to suit individual teaching styles and/or students' needs *each skill, assignment or project begins by 'teaching the teacher', giving an inexperienced teacher the knowledge to provide effective instruction first time out and the confidence to modify and experiment thereafter *comprised of reading, writing, literary criticism and language-study components *moves students from writing effectively to reading analytically (approaching text from the authoring point of view), a proven, highly successful methodology *can turn any English course into a Literacy course *extremely versatile and cost-effective *can deepen an existing English course or complete the framework for a new one STORY CRAFTING focuses on the creation, production and sharing of a variety of nonfiction writing projects. The text can be implemented in the classroom alone or in tandem with the two other titles in the Literacy: Made for All Series - WORDSMITHING and ENJOYING LITERATURE. Also of interest for classroom teachers is the Let Them Write Series *CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT: Classroom Ready Materials for Teaching Writing and Literary Analysis Skills in Grades 4 to 8 *PLOT BUILDING: Classroom Ready Materials for Teaching Writing and Literary Analysis Skills in Grades 4 to 8 *SETTING AND DESCRIPTION: Classroom Ready Materials for Teaching Writing and Literary Analysis Skills in Grades 4 to 8

About Arlene F. Marks

Arlene Marks began both writing and teaching at an early age: she loved playing school with younger neighborhood children on weekday afternoons, passing on what she had learned in school that day. Still passionate about education, she is now a multi-published author, editor, and teacher of English, literacy and writing with more than twenty years of experience in the high school classroom. Check out her website: www.thewritersnest.ca.

Table of Contents

Introduction Implementing Literacy: Made to Order Aims and Objectives of Literacy: Made to Order How to implement Story Crafting PART I: GETTING STARTED Introduction/Aims and Objectives Skill 1: Establishing an Ideas File Students learn how to develop and use an Ideas File as a source of writing inspiration. Skill 2: What Happened Before and What Happens Next Students explore the causes and effects of a variety of story-triggering incidents or situations and practice turning them into story ideas. Skill 3: Establishing the Theme of Your Story Students practice growing underlying themes that can help their fictional tales deliver important and powerful messages to readers. Skill 4: Creating the Illusion of Reality Students learn how to make characters, settings and plot events behave or transpire in realistic ways. Skill 5: Understanding Dramatic Conflict Student authors practice putting multiple conflicts into a story to make it interesting and exciting for the reader. Skill 6: Understanding Story/Scene Structure Young authors learn how to construct a fictional scene and practice putting scenes in the best order to create an interesting story. Skill 7: Writing Descriptively: Wake Up Your Senses Young authors reawaken their senses and establish a vocabulary of sensory words and phrases to enhance their descriptive writing. Skill 8: Writing Descriptively: Use Figurative Language Student authors practice using similes and metaphors to make their descriptive writing more evocative. Skill 9: Writing Descriptively: Use Descriptive language Students learn to recognize and use words with specific connotations in order to make their writing more effective. Skill 10: Putting Everything Together (Writing Assignment) Students take a story through the entire process from outlining to Final Draft. PART II: WRITING THE SHORT STORY Introduction/Aims and Objectives Skill 1: Building a Strong Main Character Students practice the techniques that authors use to bring fictional personalities to life on the page. Skill 2: Constructing a Solid Dramatic Conflict Dramatic conflict is the backbone of any story. Student authors practice building and developing the strongest possible level of dramatic conflict in their stories. Skill 3: Creating an Interesting Setting Students practice developing and using realistic, well-written settings to strengthen and deepen every element of their stories. Skill 4: Structuring a Story Effectively in Scenes Students learn how to make their stories flow interestingly from beginning to end. Skill 5: Setting Up the Story Student authors practice writing opening scenes that will lay a strong foundation for the rest of their story. Skill 6: Hooking the Reader Students practice creating story openings that will 'hook' the reader's attention from the very beginning of a tale. Skill 7: Major Writing Assignment Students are now ready to put together all the writing skills they have learned in a story-writing assignment which will be revised, edited and polished and handed in for evaluation. PART III: WRITING LONGER FICTION Introduction/Story Lengths Skill 1: Adding Minor Characters to the Cast Young authors learn and practice how to put minor characters to work in their stories, ensuring that every character pulls his/her weight. Skill 2: Giving Characters More Depth Students practice building more realistic characters that readers will identify with and care about. Skill 3: Adding a Subplot Student authors learn how to deepen and enrich their stories by adding well-integrated subplots. Skill 4: Working with Settings Young authors practice putting their story settings to work in various ways, making their stories more engaging for the reader. Skill 5: Step-building Dramatic Tension In longer fiction, dramatic tension keeps readers turning pages. Students learn and practice how to build tension using a tested story structure. Skill 6: Major Writing Assignment Students are now ready to put together all the longer fiction writing skills they have learned in a story-writing assignment which will be revised, edited and polished and handed in for evaluation. PART IV: THE WRITING PROCESS: A SUPPLEMENTARY LIBRARY OF FICTION WRITING TOOLS Introduction: How to Use the Fiction Writing Toolkit Tools 1-23

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CIN1475807333G
9781475807332
1475807333
Story Crafting: Classroom-Ready Materials for Teaching Fiction Writing Skills in the High School Grades by Arlene F. Marks
Used - Good
Paperback
Rowman & Littlefield
2014-05-04
240
N/A
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