Using Picture Books to Teach Characterization in Writing Workshop
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=101
Need a great picture book to stimulate better narrative writing among your students? Learn some different ways to develop story characters with this lesson and bibliography.
Tracy's Ten Prewriting Exercises for Personal Narratives
http://www.tengrrl.com/tens/006.shtml
Use these exercises with the traditional journalist's questions before beginning writing.
Composition Patterns: Narrative and Descriptive
http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/composition/narrative.htm
Study descriptive elements in narrative writing and then read examples by well-known authors.
Standards for Evaluating Composing, Skills for Narrative Writing
http://io.uwinnipeg.ca/~hkatz/Courses/3101/wrtngb.html
Use this rubric to assess the structure of students' writing.
The Five-Paragraph Essay
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Atrium/1437/
The Five Paragraph Essay, an online writing tutorial for high school students, provides the following sections: Getting Started; How to Write the Essay; Editing, Revising, and Evaluating; and Writing Prompts.
