For this story lab, I read the Empoword chapter 2, which is about the basics of story writing. I wanted to read this section so that I could get ideas on how to teach story writing in my future ELA classroom. I really enjoyed this resource, and it gave some cool activities and suggestions. One idea would be to have students write 3 stories based on the cropped pictures! It had some zoomed in photography, and each story would have a different point, even though it's ultimately the same picture.
I also liked how it gave the basic story arch, and plot sequence. That includes things like rising action, falling action, climax, etc. However, they mention that this is only one way to tell a story. It's the most common, but it's also kind of boring. You can adjust things about the plot to add interest and originality to a story. For example, you can start at the rising action, and loop back around to the exposition. I like all the graphics that they used and the charting. I feel like it would make it easy to teach kids. I also thought about how to teach kids P-O-V. I thought about giving them a short story, and making them identify the current pov of the story. After that, I would have them rewrite the story in a different pov of their choice. Then they would do a little author's note about how the story changed when they wrote in a different point of view.
I also liked the little section about dialogue also. This is something that I struggle with writing. When I was in school, we never practiced how to write narrative or dialogue. It's hard to write it realistically and with the proper punctuation. I'll probably return to this section to review the next time I write a story. They have some pretty cool activities to practice, so I might check some of those for myself or my future students!
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