Students write competently for a variety of purposes and audiences. Students demonstrate competence in speaking and listening as tools for learning and communicating. The purpose of this presentation is to demonstrate skills for teaching story writing to primary and middle school students. If students can learn to write short stories, they will develop the skills needed to comprehend narratives that they encounter in textbooks and other reading materials and will experience progress toward literacy. The participants of the workshop will practice descriptive writing, observe effective story-writing instruction, make a model of a story board, discuss how screenwriters develop scripts, observe the components of the writing process in student writing, and cooperatively write a short narrative knowing only one element of a story board.
Students write competently for a variety of purposes and audiences.
The result is creative creative writing. This process will help inspire students who might not have seen a way of thinking mapped out for them before. In this workshop, participants will use an everyday, sometimes ignored, object as an inspirational springboard and will take part in creation of idea webs. Participants should become more knowledgeable about the writing process and the steps involved to help link student ideas as they progress from concrete to more conceptual thinking in development of their own Stone Shoes Stories. Students write competently for a variety of purposes and audiences.