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:
Lower Level | Middle Level | Upper Level | |||
Book 1 | Book 2 | Book 2 | Book 2 | ||
Unit 1 | School Life | Family Life | Fantasy | Pirate Stories | |
Unit 2 | Bullying | Fairy Tales | Historical Stories | Detective Stories | |
Unit 3 | Animals | Mystery Stories | Science Fiction | Mystery/ Ghost Stories | |
Unit 4 | Adventure | Fantasy | Horror Stories | Historical Stories | |
Unit 5 | Humour | Sport | Stories The Raise Issues | Greek Myths | |
Unit 6 | Science Fiction | Friendship | Egyptian Myths | Stories in Letters | |
Unit 7 | Vietnamese Folktales | Science Fiction/Fantasy | |||
Unit 8 | Family Life | Indonesian Folktales |
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Lower Primary - Book 1
ISBN | 9781921143656 |
Publisher | Blake Education |
Product Type | Teacher Resources, |
Year Level | Foundation, Year 1, Year 2, |
Author(s) | Frances Mackay and Merryn Whitfield |
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