Fantasy Writing Step-by-Step Narrative Guide

Guide your students through their upcoming imaginative writing project with this comprehensive, step-by-step manual designed for crafting fantasy narratives. What sets this guide apart from most creative writing resources is its initial focus on encouraging students to make entertaining and straightforward decisions about the fundamental components of their story prior to any actual writing.

You'll be amazed at how simply your students will be able to craft their own fantasy narrative. Beginning with straightforward directions, examples, and tips, students will then be able to plan out their story using multiple choice characterization options, short answer plotting devices, and map-drawing activity. An outlining guidance completes the narrative planning process. By then, students will be excited to start drafting their story. A clear peer edit activity is included with this resource, as well as a Common Core-tied rubric.

• Your download, which can be used either as an immediate substitute plan ("10-second sub plan" - just print and place it on your desk!) or as the basis for a week-long writing module, includes:

  • A narrative map template: Helps students to choose the key elements of their fantasy story - setting, hero, character arc, antagonist, and conflict (with minimal writing needed!)

  • A research chart: Enables students to flesh out the details of their narrative

  • A narrative outline activity: Guides students to transform their visually represented ideas from the map into a written draft of their narrative

  • A fantasy narrative writing assignment sheet: Contains descriptions of renowned fantasy tales, a calendar for due dates, general tips for narrative writing, a checklist for peer editing in fantasy writing, and a grading rubric tied to FOUR Common Core standards

  • A link to an editable rubric: Allows for customization in grading and smooth incorporation into Google Classroom and various other Learning Management Systems (LMS's)

  • All the four pages of this lesson are provided in both full color and black and white versions.

Although this resource can be fitted for any secondary Language Arts classroom, it has been carefully designed to work best in grades 7, 8, 9, and 10. The included rubric is subtly but specifically tied to Common Core ELA Standards for Language (1 and 2), Reading Literature (2), and Writing (3, 4, and 5). This resource is provided in print-ready, bookmarked, and adjustable PDF files and PowerPoint Show files.

This resource contains 4 pages.