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

Story-writing pack that teaches fiction craft, then hands students a ready-made plan: Frank and his dad at a closing-down sale, with a numbered plot outline leading up to Frank grabbing the last game box.
Grades
Grades 3–8, Elementary, Middle School
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Updated Oct 13, 2026

Subject
ELA, Writing, Creative Writing
Topic
Creative writing, Storytelling
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What's inside this resource

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.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Write a complete story from a given character, setting and plot plan
  • Use dialogue and suspense in narrative writing

Skills covered

  • Expanding an outline — students turn numbered plot points into full paragraphs

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Concepts & topics

Core concepts

  • Story planning
  • Dialogue
  • Suspense
  • First and third person
  • Connectives

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