Learning Opportunities

This workshop is geared for any teacher responsible for teaching narrative writing with a focus on grades 2-7. Understand the key characteristics of narrative writing as well as a proven, practical, research-based methodology that works in the real world of the classroom! Come away with specific lesson plans with clear objectives that empower you to:

• understand the characteristics of a range of narrative types of stories: character/problem/solution, personal experience, imaginative, realistic fiction
• explore the reading-writing connection
• learn specific strategies for writing entertaining beginnings
• write relevant, vivid elaborative detail
• build suspense
• develop fully-elaborated main events
• craft satisfying extended story endings
• receive powerful exemplars of narrative writing for classroom use
• address the personal experience narrative

This learning opportunity is being offered through a grant from Alberta Education.