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Writing Narrative Style

Narrative Essay Examples In a narrative essay you tell a story, but you also make a point. So, it is like a story told for a reason. A narrative essay uses all the story elements - a beginning and ending, plot, characters, setting and climax - all coming together to complete the story. Essential Elements of…

Images are part of the story – sometimes they are only in your imagination: and sometimes you get lucky – and find the work of Children’s Illustrator Angela Padron. Angela magically captured the beautiful writing of Ellis Paul’s historic characters in "The Hero in You," by doing her own research and bringing their unique qualities…

Creative Exercises: Getting Ready to Write

It’s shocking how loud the empty blank page can scream at you. Deafening. How do we start? One word at a time. Slowly. Just look at the blank page, and conquer it. Write one word. It doesn’t have to be on a line, or small or big. It is just a word. It is your…

Writer’s Welfare

A successful way to challenge students to become more independent writers is to task yourself as a listener. Help students learn what ideas and things in and about their lives are special to them. Encourage them to make discoveries and connections with those things in their writing. Students who are always supplied with outside ideas…