Packed with easy-to-execute ideas and dozens of writing forms
- Assists students in refining their sentence writing skills. Includes: Setting the Stage for Writing: reading to your class, word walls and story walls
- Teaching the Parts of a Story
- Step-by-Step Writing Units
- Story Writing Ideas: re-tell a fairy tale, a pattern story, a circle story and a sequence-and-write story
- A Story Writing Center: directions, forms and patterns for 5 story-writing centers
- Who, What, Where, When
- Start with a Picture
- Story Starters
- Story Parts
- Train Tales: each train car represents a different part of the story.