BHS ELA Instructional Guide

Learning Progression Example

1. Dissect the prompt, identifying the audience, purpose, and format for the task. 2. Read mentor texts in the genre of the narrative you are writing in. 3. Employ prewriting to develop the problem, situation, observation, setting, point of view, and characters. 4. Outline event sequences. 5. Integrate narrative techniques to build out events and multiple plot lines: dialogue, pacing, description, and refection. 6. Integrate narrative techniques to develop characters. 7. Write a resolution and connects the experience over the course of the narrative. 8. Revise and vary syntax to create mood and tone. 9. Revise for conventions that are appropriate for the style, audience, purpose, and task. Academic Language technique, sequences, resolution, orient, points of view, dialogue, plot lines, syntax, mood, tone, narrative, pacing Strategies to Support Teaching the Standard ● A Step-by-Step Plan for Teaching Narrative Writing by Cult of Pedagogy ● Short and Sweet: Reading and Writing Flash Fiction by The Learning Network (NYT) ● How to Write a 100-Word Narrative by The Learning Network (NYT) Question Stems and Prompts for Assessment ● Who is the narrator? How does the author introduce the narrator? ● Establish a context and point of view in the narrative. ● What event(s) reveal the problem in the story? ● Does the author use dialogue to develop the plot? How does this dialogue convey the mood the author is creating? ● Who are the protagonist and the antagonist of the story? How do they affect the action and resolution? ● Which character changed throughout the story?

● What details indicate that there was a resolution to the problem? ● What organizational pattern did the author use? How do you know? ● Refect on the events or experiences in the conclusion. Additional Supports / Professional Resources

Collins, Brittany. “Teaching the Writing Process.” Write the World, 9 May 2024, blog.writetheworld.org/teaching-the-writing-process. Kittle, Penny. “Chapter 7: The Art of Story.” Write Beside Them . Heinemann, 2008, p. 102-128.

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Last Updated August 13, 2024

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