Literacy Head
Literacyhead: Images to Give Writers Ideas: Testing
Let students write in response to these narrative images. You can also engage them in discussions about what is interesting in each picture or how the characters feel.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Narrative Pyramid
A printable narrative pyramid where students can record information about a story including the character, setting, problem, main events, and solution. Directions on how to use this type of graphic organize as well as lists of teaching...
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Lesson Plans on Writing Short Stories
This lesson focuses on teacher preparation of lesson plans before attempting to teach learners to write short stories. It includes questions to ask yourself, ideas for activities, and a sample lesson plan.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Narrative Paragraphs
Students learn to use a one-main idea Think-sheet for producing a narrative paragraph. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Giving Voice to Opposites
In this lesson, students will develop a narrative in opposing voices.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: An Onomatopoetic Field Trip
In this lesson, learners will develop a story incorporating onomatopoeia and strong word choice.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Alliterative Insects
In this lesson students develop a story about an insect while utilizing previously written sentences with strong word choice.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Literature Inspired Writing Lesson: I Never Knew That!
In To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout and Jem discover that their seemingly "feeble" father has an astonishing ability with a rifle. For this assignment, writers will compose a letter to a parent or loved one, asking for a return letter that...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Unique Metaphor Collections
In this lesson, the first chapter of the novel Girl with a Pearl Earring is used as a mentor text. Students will identify metaphors and then create their own unique metaphorical descriptions that they will begin to collect in their...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Scheming Against an Adversary
Enemy Pie by Derek Munson makes readers think seriously about this question: "What if I had to spend an entire day with someone with whom I had a conflict?" This question presents young writers with a great launching pad for developing...
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Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Narrative Grading Rubric [Pdf]
This site provides four versions of rubrics for narrative writing. The rubrics provide the following assessment categories: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, fluency, conventions. A 6-point rubric, a 5-point rubric, a 4-point...
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: The Literature of Upheaval [Pdf]
In this instructional activity, 8th graders read excerpts from Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Beecher Stowe and discuss the impact their ideas about society and slavery had when their books were published. They then...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Suggestions for Writing Memoirs: Memoirs Inspired by Whimpy Diary
After reading journal entries from The Diary of a Whimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney, students brainstorm and share their own ideas with a partner. Once they have a few ideas, they choose one idea to transform into a narrative writing. The...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Metamorphosis Stories of Change
The goal of this activity is for students to learn how to tell a story in order to make a complex topic (such as global warming or ozone holes) easier for a reader to grasp. Students realize that the narrative impulse underlies even...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Common Application for Undergraduate College Admission
SCU uses StoryCorps' tested interviewing techniques-combined with outstanding radio broadcasts and animated shorts-to support high school students in the development of identity and in drawing connections between their unique strengths...
Other
Childdrama: Creative Drama Lesson Plans
Many lesson plans with ideas for teachers and pupils, sorted by age and by type! Wonderful for thematic approaches.
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Leopold Ranke
A German historian, frequently considered the founder of "scientific" history. Ranke set the tone for much of later historical writing, introducing such ideas as reliance on primary sources, an emphasis on narrative history and...