Creative Writing

Teaches students in levels 3 through 5 the components of a well-written, creative story and how to evaluate writing at four levels of complexity.

Containers For Your Words

Unit 1: Fiction and Non-Fiction

Students work on activities where they read given titles to decide what a story is going to be about.
3 Lessons

Unit 2: Your Readers

Students work on activities where they determine the audience from a given piece of text.
2 Lessons

Unit 3: Poetry - Rhyming and Verse

Students work on activities where they pick a word that rhymes with a given set of words and identify rhyming words in a given quatrain and couplet.
4 Lessons

Unit 4: Story Types

Students work on activities where they determine whether a given passage or title represents a “character, problem or solution” story or a “personal experience” story.
2 Lessons

Unit 5: Friendly and Formal Letters

Students work on activities where they determine whether a given situation warrants a formal or friendly letter.
1 Lessons

Story Building

Unit 1: Story Openings

Students work on activities where they determine the character or setting from an opening.
1 Lessons

Unit 2: Setting

Students work on activities where they determine the sense that relates to a given passage or word and determine whether given details relate to a specific setting.
3 Lessons

Unit 3: Mood

Students work on activities where they relate a given passage to a mood.
1 Lessons

Unit 4: Plot

Students work on activities where they differentiate between character, setting and plot and put events in order.
2 Lessons

Unit 5: Crisis / Problem

Students work on activities where they differentiate between character, setting, plot and a crisis problem.
3 Lessons

Unit 6: Climax

Students work on activities where they determine the most effective climax for a given passage.
2 Lessons

Unit 7: Solution / Conclusion

Students work on activities where they determine an appropriate ending for a given story.
2 Lessons

Unit 8: Character Sketch

Students work on activities where they determine characteristics for a given character and determine whether given characteristics are internal or not.
4 Lessons

Unit 9: Review

Students work on activities where they differentiate between character, setting, plot, solution and a crisis-problem. They will also be asked to determine mood, setting, conflict, ending, opening of a given story.
3 Lessons

Writing For A Purpose

Unit 1: Writing A Descriptive Paragraph

Students work on activities where they determine whether a given description is interesting or not and match adjectives with appropriate objects.
4 Lessons

Unit 2: Writing Questions

Students work on activities where they identify the statement part of a two part question.
3 Lessons

Unit 3: Writing To Convince Or Persuade

Students work on activities where they determine whose point of view is being expressed from clues in a given statement. They also identify whether a given sentence strongly supports a basic argument.
3 Lessons

Unit 4: Writing To Provide Details

Students work on activities where they identify details that are relevant for a given situation, recognize key words and important details.
6 Lessons

Final Check

Unit 1: Check That Story - Level One

Students work on activities where they work on reading comprehension skills.
4 Lessons

Unit 2: Check That Story - Level Two

Students work on activities where they determine an effective word to insert into a story.
4 Lessons

Unit 3: Check That Story - Level Three

Students work on activities where they determine the proper punctuation marks to insert into a story.
5 Lessons