COMMON CORE WRITING Narrative Writing Workbook: A Complete Guide to Writing Stories, Personal Narratives, and More Grade 4 - Softcover

Test Master Press Common Core

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1541082257 ISBN 13: 9781541082250

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

This guided workbook will develop all the skills needed for effective narrative writing and give students practice creating a wide range of narrative texts.

The first section contains sets of exercises and writing prompts that will develop the narrative writing skills listed in the Common Core State Standards. The second section gives students practice applying the skills by writing a wide range of narrative texts.

Section 1: Developing Narrative Writing Skills
- focused sets develop key narrative writing skills one by one
- develops all the narrative writing skills described in the Common Core standards
- each set introduces the skill, guides students to complete a task, and then provides independent practice
- examples, guided tasks, and hints teach students how to produce effective writing
- additional warm-up exercises prepare students for each set
- covers sequence, plot, setting, characterization, theme, dialogue, and descriptions
- tasks teach students writing techniques like using concrete words, using sensory details, writing first-person stories, and using transition words and phrases

Section 2: Applying Narrative Writing Skills
- 10 sets of writing prompts allow students to apply narrative writing skills
- each set focuses on one style or one genre of narrative writing
- includes practice writing personal narratives, diary entries, letters, science fiction, adventure stories, mystery stories, and more
- hints and tips guide students through the tasks
- students are encouraged to edit and revise their completed work
- prepares students for the types of writing tasks found on assessment tasks and tests

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1541082257
• ISBN 13: 9781541082250
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144