Creative Writing Short Stories: A Guide / Organizer for the Short Story Process

SHORT STORY CREATIVE WRITING PACKET:

This packet offers your students Graphic Organizers for the Short Story Process. The organizers walk the students through each step of the writing process by brainstorming and organizing each part of the plot. Each organizer also gives a helpful description of the plot point with guided prompts to help your students get started. These tools could be used in grades 5-9.

The Packet includes the following sections:
1) Brainstorming:
--Topics and Ideas for my short story
-- Word Web
2) Exposition:
--Creating Characters, setting, conflict
--How do I start?
3) The Rising Action:
--Important Events/Moments of my short story
--How do these moments affect the conflict?
4) The Climax, Falling Action, and Resolution:
--How is the conflict resolved?
--How does the resolution answer all the reader's questions?

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