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Teaching to Write Fiction Stories – Middle School Semester 1

Grades

Why write fiction stories?
Enjoy this course! (An overview of the course and structure)
Using dictation or typing for stories (especially if your students have dyslexia or dysgraphia)
Building blocks to a story
Activity: Read three or more short stories
Story Premise
Write your first story

Story and story components
Characters
Your character must be active and strong
Plot
Setting
Dialogue
Write a story based on the characters, plot and setting you've created, including dialogue

Writing is Re-Writing
How to revise your stories
How to edit your stories
Examples of common grammar problems and how to change them
Examples of common punctuation problems and how to change them
Activity: Choose a story idea to write, revise and edit
Revise and edit a story

Let your imagination go crazy!
Creating a bunch of ideas quickly
Use this site's story prompts to activate imagination
Narrowing ideas down to the most promising
Activity: Choose a story idea
Take the story premise and write a story

The story plot needs a beginning, middle, and end
Planning the story
Planning the story versus outlining an essay
More benefits of planning the story
The steps to planning the story
Writing the beginning of the story
Writing the middle of the story
Writing the end of the story
The Plot Diagram
The Inciting Incident - Launch the story!
Activity: Create a plot and an outline for each section of the story
Write a story with a clear beginning, middle, and end

Who tells the story?
The Points of View of a Story
Omniscient
First Person
Third Person
Second Person
Activity: Create a story idea and describe how it would be written in each point of view
Write a story from 2 different points of view
Compare the two stories
The Movie Frozen and the Power of Point of View

Creating interesting stories every time
Goal
Motivation
Conflicts
Activity: Create a character with a goal, motivation, opponent, and conflict
Write a story using Goal, Motivation and Conflicts

When things get too deep, just write a fun story
Activity: Create a list of story ideas, including characters, plots, and twists
Write a fun story
Celebrate the difference in story-telling ability

Building blocks to a story

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