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The Closing Down Sale: Write A Story (9-13 years)

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Creative Writing Tutor cover for The Closing Down Sale: Write A Story, with a hamster drawing and a writing skills tagline
Introduce the story-writing unit
Let's learn to write fiction: checklists on audience, genre and purpose, plus suspense, dialogue and varied sentence types
Mini-lesson notes before students start planning
Plan your fiction writing: what goes in paragraphs 1 to 3, first or third person narration, and conjunctions to link ideas
Reference guide to keep beside students while drafting
Story plan picture: a shopper carries discounted boxes marked 50% and 70% off under a hanging shop sign, with sale bags
Visual prompt to spark ideas about the setting
Story plan steps 1 to 4: Frank and Dad on the High Street spot a half-price game, join the queue and rush to the door
Model plan showing how events build in sequence
Story plan steps 5 and 6: a crowd grabs for games and Frank argues over the last box, then four outcomes to pick from
Discussion: which ending works best and why?
Story planner: students add character and High Street setting details, then write what Frank sees, does and says to Dad
Guided planning task for the story opening
Planner, continued: students plan the complication with the girl, a suspenseful crisis and how events are resolved
Planning the middle and ending before the full draft
Model story opening: Frank spots a sale sign, queues with Dad, races upstairs and argues with a girl over the last game
Shared reading of an example narrative
Model story ending: the manager gives the game to the girl, then neighbour Mabel hands Frank the same game as thanks
Compare this resolution with students' own endings
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Grade 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

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The Closing Down Sale: Write A Story (9-13 years)

The Closing Down Sale: Write A Story (9-13 years) is a valuable resource for educators. This teaching tool focuses on the age group of 9 to 13, perfect for kids in Grades 3 to Grade 8.

This resource predominantly targets Language Arts, specifically Creative Writing. It helps develop a fondness towards storytelling and writing in young learners.

Key Highlights

  • Tailored to inspire students to make a story around 'The Computer Game' theme.
  • Includes detailed guidelines promoting creativity and imagination - crucial elements of the writing process.
  • Pack contains short stories as examples showing conversion of unorganized thoughts into engaging tales, thereby sharpening their creative skills further.
  • A heavy focus on the use of linguistics tools like challenging verbs, adjectives and adverbs with an aim of amplifying vocabulary among more adept pupils.

Packing Essentials Within this Tool:

  1. An outline that students can adhere to when planning their own narrative content - be it a story or play script; thus ensuring engaging practice sessions that push language abilities through creative thinking.
  2. Provides great flexibility: Can be used during whole group discussions or within small study groups focusing on teamwork dynamics or even as part of homework assignments. Consistency in practise is maintained irrespective place or mode.
    1. In essence, The Closing Down Sale: Write A Story (9-13 years) aims at boosting not just writing skills but incites students to explore where creativity meets curiosity – paving way for ideas spreading across pages.

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