Raising the Quality of Narrative Writing

1. Raising the Quality of Narrative Writing Advanced Writing Workshop

2. Raising the Quality of Narrative Writing • Reading with a Writer's EyeIn this session, students will study mentor texts in partnerships and identify the qualities of strong narrative writing that these stories demonstrate. • Starting with Turning Points In this session, you'll introduce students to a strategy for generating narrative ideas by thinking of first times, last times, or times they realized something important. • Starting with Strong FeelingsIn this session, you'll introduce students to another strategy for generating narrative ideas by writing the name of a strong feeling on the page.

3. Raising the Quality of Narrative Writing • Yesterday's Revisions Become Today's Standard PracticeIn this session, you'll guide students to set goals for lifting the quality of their writing by using all they've learned so far about writing and studying mentor texts. • Listening for Significance in Seed IdeasIn this session, you'll teach students in partnerships how to be great listeners by drawing out the possibilities in each other's seed entries • Writers Ask, "What Am I Really Trying to Say?"In this session, you'll teach students to carefully consider what their stories are really about as an aid to truly craft and revise their narrative.

4. Raising the Quality of Narrative Writing • Studying and Creating LeadsIn this session, students study how other authors write their leads and then craft their own leads in similar styles. • Telling the Story From Inside ItIn this session, you'll teach students to write from the narrator's point of view. • Bringing Forth the Internal Story In this session, students learn that bringing out the deep connection between external actions and internal responses can strengthen their personal narratives.

5. Raising the Quality of Narrative Writing • Adding Scenes from the Past and FutureIn this session, you'll teach students that writers use scenes from the past or future to bring out the internal story and add power to our narratives. • Bringing Forth the Story ArcIn this session, students learn that a powerful way to revise their narratives is to bring out the story structure. • Ending StoriesIn this session, you will teach children that writers don't just end stories, we resolve problems, learn lessons, and make changes to end them effectively.

6. Raising the Quality of Narrative Writing • Editing: The Power of CommasIn this session, students will study how commas are used in writing they admire and then use commas in their own writing to make it more exact. • Reading Aloud Our Writing: A Ceremony of CelebrationIn this session, students will have an opportunity to share their writing with an audience, thus bringing their writing to culmination.

7. Activities Reading with a Writer’s Eye Active engagement: Stop and Jot, p.6 Starting with Turning Points Active engagement: Stop and Jot. 21 Starting with Strong Feelings Active engagement: Stop and Jot p.35