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 connect 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, closure, 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) ● This I Believe Essays (analysis of and writing) ○ Resources for Educators by NPR ○ Giving Voice to Students Through "This I Believe" Podcasts by Read, Write Think Lesson Plan ○ Power Lesson: “This I Believe” Essays by Cult of Pedagogy Question Stems and Prompts for Assessment ● What experience or event will you write about? ● How will you introduce your characters and narrator? ● From what point of view is your story written? ü Is the point of view consistent throughout the story? ● How will you organize the events in your story? Are they logical? Is the relationship between the events evident? ● What are the various plot lines in your story? ● What techniques can you use to build toward a particular tone or outcome (mystery/suspense/growth/resolution)? ● What transitional expressions did you use to convey the sequence of events? ● How can you use dialogue to convey the experience? ● How and where can you utilize descriptive language to assist in conveying the experience?

● Are the descriptive details provided relevant? ● Does your conclusion refect upon the resolution? 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.

Last Updated August 13, 2024

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