Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Provide a Satisfying Conclusion to a Story
In this lesson, you will learn to provide a satisfying conclusion to your story by ending with the character's feelings and their response to what happened in the story. Login gives access to a slideshow as well. [5:50]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Choose a Writing Topic From a List of Brainstormed Ideas
In this lesson, you will learn how to choose a story idea by asking, "Which of these could I write most about?" and then imagining the story. [5:37]
Other
Just Add Students: Using Videos to Teach Students About Narrative Writing
This resource provides several mini-lessons for teachers to use with students who are writing narratives. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.3
PBS
Pbs: Traveling the Bozeman Trail: The Bozeman Trail: A Rush to Montana's Gold
Learn about the challenges faced by pioneers as they traveled west on the Bozeman Trail, a shortcut to the newly discovered goldfields of Montana Territory. In the accompanying lesson plans (found in the Support Materials), students will...
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Crafting Personal Narratives That Reveal Something About Yourself
In this lesson, you will learn how to reveal something about yourself in your writing by showing the reader how you have changed. [6:50]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Organize Ideas Chronologically for a Narrative
In this lesson, you will learn how to tell your story step-by-step by getting the memory in your head and thinking "What happened first, then next, then next." [4:43]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Planning a Narrative Response to a Prompt
In this lesson, you will plan your writing by using boxes and bullets to organize each part of your narrative. [4:04]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Generating a Topic for a Narrative Response
In this lesson, you will generate a storyline by making a web of middle/end ideas and choosing the one you can picture best in your head. [3:44]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Organize Ideas Chronologically for a Narrative
In this lesson, you will learn how to tell your story step-by-step by getting the memory in your head and thinking "What happened first, then next, then next." [5:17]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Show, Don't Tell
In this lesson, you will learn how to make your story more realistic and exciting by showing, not telling. [8:27]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Use Detailed Descriptions in Personal Narrative
In this lesson, you will learn how to improve your personal narrative by using detailed descriptions as you write. [6:55]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Add Similes to Narrative Writing
In this lesson, you have learned how to make your story more lively by adding similes. [5:24]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Narratives
This tutorial uses text and audio to introduce narrative writing. [2:03]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Narratives: Organization: Lesson 1
This video tutorial discusses how narratives are organized including beginning, middle, end and types of organizational patterns. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "Narratives: Organization." [10:06] W.11-12.3c Narrative Org
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Narratives: Topic
This video tutorial discusses how to select a topic for a narrative and how to use a narrative in an essay. [7:59]