Writing with Results

Are you puzzled that captivating ideas don't necessarily generate a good story? Have you wondered how children can be led through the stages of story planning to turn their story/motifs into vivid imagery? If you have ever posed these questions and struggled with a way to help students transfer their imaginations onto paper, I empathize.
Writing can arouse expectation and help a child journey to a new horizon, or writing can be sheer drudgery, an assignment to escape from as quickly as possible. In this manual, keys to dynamic writing are presented. You will learn how to use a simple story growth chart to balance the planning difficulty of assignments with the skill level you expect. You will discover how to paint vivid mental pictures by using the method of ‘showing' instead of telling. You will see how crucial the conflict and narrator are to developing a three dimensional, central story figure. This manual covers a years writing curriculum for grades one to six. Assignments include: story writing, poetry, newspapers, journals, book reports, letter writing, reports, essays, autobiographies, biographies, sentences, paragraphs, and a section on how to write with very beginning writers. Have fun with this practical guide!”