Each team now edits the two team stories. The editor's job is to offer suggestions to the author for revisions of the composition and to read the composition aloud so the writer could hear it from a distance. Changing School Reading Programs. Students discuss key elements that make up a great story and how the quality of these features distinguish good stories from mediocre ones. Teams create a checklist to a apply to a story they have read and to their own story.
Students select one story feature they felt needed improvement in their own writing.
The students now regroup themselves with other students who are planning to focus on the same feature. These become the new writing teams. The teams read several published stories and discuss how those authors developed the feature in question. The team now writes a team story. Then the checklist is applied to the story and any revisions are made.