Halloween Narrative Writing Guide!

Halloween Narrative Writing Guide

   Halloween Narrative Writing Guide provides an engaging educational resource for educators aiming to combine seasonal entertainment and learning. It is designed with the intent to enrich students' narrative writing skills during Halloween celebrations.

Different from Typical Creative Writing Units

   Unlike typical creative writing units, this guide revolves around captivating techniques that prompt students to organise their thoughts prior to putting them into words. This planned approach simplifies the process and ensures an element of fun as learners make choices about important story aspects. Consequently, it greatly cuts down on excessive writing by students while promoting easy synthesis and development of narratives.

Included Components

• A narrative map template for determining key story features like setting, heroes, villains etc.
• A research chart that fosters detail development.
• A narrating framework that uses visual cues for drafting narratives.
• Grading rubrics (CCRA.W.3, CCRA.R.2, CCRA.L.1,and CCRA.L .2) are included so that students can familiarize themselves with standards before undertaking assignments or peer reviews during group activities or homework sessions.

Note: All resources come in black & white along with full-colour options catering handsomely to printing preferences! The provided EASEL by TpT feature ensures seamless integration with your chosen learning management system without requiring any extra preparation work on your part.

The Benefits

   The guide allows teachers to deliver relevant instructions through festive collaborations among large student groups or concentrated small groups . It serves as an exciting foundation for intensive week-long writing projects, ensuring syllabus completion while enhancing student performance considerably. With this guide, learners from grades 5 to 12 across various disciplines including Halloween-themed studies can experience an innovative approach bypassing traditional teaching methodologies and propelling intellectual growth effectively!

A “10-second sub plan” (print and drop on your desk!) or the basis of a week-long writing unit, your purchase includes:

A narrative map template that assists students on selecting their Halloween story’s setting, hero, character arc, villain, and conflict (almost no writing required!)

A research chart so students can develop the details of their narrative

A narrative outline activity, where students can take their map’s visual guidelines and begin drafting their narrative

A Halloween narrative writing assignment sheet that includes descriptions of famous horror stories, a due date calendar, general narrative writing tips, a Halloween story writing peer edit checklist, and standards-based grading rubric (Standards: CCRA.W.3, CCRA.R.2, CCRA.L.1, and CCRA.L.2)

All 4-pages of this lesson are provided in B&W and full color (for lucky teachers with access to color printing!)