Give your students the structured practice they need to write interesting short stories, along with the creative inspiration that makes writing fun!

How to Write a Story, includes:

• Setting the Stage for Writing-reading to your class, word walls, story walls
• Teaching the Parts of a Story
• Step-by-Step Writing Units

Story Writing Ideas:

• retell a fairy tale
• a pattern story
• a circle story
• 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

This resource contains teacher support pages and reproducible student pages.

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