Parts of a Story

The slides above were taken during a lesson called, "Parts of a Story"

Students are working on fictionalized stories about a family tradition they have. The began with Ms. Simpson telling stories about her family traditions. She talked about the process she used. First she drew a picture of her home. From that she was able to think of things her family traditionally has done together, year after year since her childhood. Students then drew their own houses and drew traditions around it.

The next step was to brainstorm traditions in writing.

At last the class was ready to discuss the parts of a story, and think about how they would make the true stories in their heads into authored stories. Authors have the power to change details so that their story will have a clear setting, characters, a problem and a solution.

Students continue to revise and finalize their work.