To help students get used to creating a plan for a narrative, we did a bit of practise.  We began by creating massive lists for "s...

One of the first things we worked on in narrative writing is the development of a character. I wanted students to come up with as many desc...

For information report writing, I used a writing ladder which worked wonderfully! For narrative writing, I have updated my writing lad...

As you may remember (and if you don't, check out this post: Writing Unit Sequence , my writing sequence to begin a new writing genre al...

This is one the best parts of starting a new writing genre... student self-evaluation and goal setting for their own writing The ...

In hopes of making our narratives more exciting to read, the grade five/six teachers created a list of words that were banned from students ...

Above is our joint deconstruction of a narrative titled "There's an Alien in My Bedroom". After completing our discovery ch...