Story Crafting: Classroom-Ready Materials for Teaching Fiction Writing Skills in the High School Grades

The “Literacy: Made for All” series is a classroom-ready, teacher-friendly resource for English and Writing teachers of Grades 9 through 12. Organized buffet style, it is designed to complement an existing English curriculum by providing a tested repertoire of strategies for teaching both writing skills and literary analysis techniques. STORY CRAFTING focuses on the creation, editing, polishing and sharing of short stories and longer prose fiction.

Benefits and Features:

tested and proven effective at all learning levels, from Remedial to Pre-AP
provides complete lesson plans including reproducible materials
can be implemented as is or modified to suit individual teaching styles and/or students' needs
each skill, assignment or project begins by 'teaching the teacher', giving an inexperienced teacher the knowledge to provide effective instruction first time out and the confidence to modify and experiment thereafter
comprised of reading, writing, literary criticism and language-study components
moves students from writing effectively to reading analytically (approaching text from the authoring point of view), a proven, highly successful methodology
can turn any English course into a Literacy course
extremely versatile and cost-effective
can deepen an existing English course or complete the framework for a new one

STORY CRAFTING focuses on the creation, production and sharing of a variety of nonfiction writing projects. The text can be implemented in the classroom alone or in tandem with the two other titles in the Literacy: Made for All Series — WORDSMITHING and ENJOYING LITERATURE.