How to Write a Story

Grades 1-3:
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, reproducible student pages, and an answer key.


Grades 4-6:
How to Write a Story, Grades 4-6 is packed with easy-to-execute ideas and dozens of writing forms that will assist student in refining their sentence writing skills.

Lessons and reproducibles to help students learn the parts of a story cover:

• characters
• setting
• plot
• conclusion

Guidelines are presented for writing in six different genres:

• realistic fiction
• historical fiction
• mystery
• adventure
• fantasy
• science fiction

This resource contains teacher support pages, reproducible student pages, and an answer key.