Seven pages for one story. Page 1 is a story map, two animals who do not get along but must work together to get home. Page 2 is the same plan on lines. Page 3 slows down the most important moment. Page 4 has Elephant and Giraffe take turns in speech bubbles, then the talk written as dialogue. Page 5 rewrites plain sentences with vivid words. Page 6 groups transition words. Page 7 is a story frame.
Read aloud a passage where an author slows time down, then a passage that skips ahead, and ask how each feels. Students then choose their big moment for page 2. Share vivid sentences from page 4 and let the class guess which plain sentence they began as.
Ask your child to tell you the most exciting moment of their story slowly, second by second: what did the character see, hear and think? Then help them write it down.
Story writing about animals with pacing, dialogue and vivid words. Students map a story with a narrator and events that unfold, slow down the big moment, write dialogue, choose words a reader can see and hear, and use transitions to move through time.
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