Story-writing Scaffolds - Lower Primary: Book 1

Part of the series Story-writing Scaffolds.

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Students struggling with story-writing? Give them Story-Writing Scaffolds and the sky's the limit! The Story-writing Scaffolds series teaches students how to plan and write stories in a variety of different genres as well as incorporating specific grammar, vocabulary and writing features. The books in the series include:

• Teacher's notes on the genres and texts formats.
• Guidance on how to develop specific grammar skills in student's writing.
• Illustrated photocopiable exemplar stories together with an annotated teacher's version that highlights
• the grammar, punctuation and writing techniques used in the story.
• Guidance on how to assist students to write a particular genre.
• Notes and tips for students on writing stories.
• Story scaffolds for each genre enable students to choose the course of the story they are writing.
• Vocabulary banks for each genre, to use and add to.

These versatile resources are ideal for shared, guided and individual writing. They provide a structured but flexible system for planning stories, which can be applied to any writing lesson.

Story-Writing Scaffolds is intended for use in schools to help teach students how to write effective short stories in a variety of different formats or genres. This series improves students' ability to organise their writing so that is has purpose by familiarising them with a system of planning stories which they can apply to any title. Each unit includes information and activities on at least one sentence-level feature. Thus the books also enhance the students' knowledge of grammar, punctuation and text style. Story-writing topics and genres covered in the Story-writing Scaffolds series:

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Lower Primary - Book 1