How to Write a Story Book, Grades 1-3

Give your students the structured practice they need to write interesting short stories, along with the creative inspiration that makes writing fun! Students learn the parts of a story and how to organize their ideas with story-planning forms. Tailor lessons to students' individual needs by presenting three options for how to address each writing topic: group writing, guided writing, or independent writing.

How to Write a Story, includes:
• Setting the Stage for Writing-reading to your class, word walls, story walls
• Teaching the Parts of a Story
• Step-by-Step Writing Units

Story Writing Ideas:
• retell a fairy tale
• a pattern story
• a circle story
• a sequence-and-write story

A Story Writing Center: directions, forms, and patterns for 5 story-writing centers
• Who, What, Where, When
• Start with a Picture
• Story Starters
• Story Parts
• Train Tales—each train car represents a different part of the story

This resource contains teacher support pages and reproducible student pages.