Story Crafting

Download or read book Story Crafting written by Arlene F. Marks and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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