Unit 7
Writing: a story Imagine that a creature from another planet arrived at your school. 1 Brainstorm ideas for a story about an alien. 1 Getting ideas Ask yourself these questions and make notes in a word web. • How did the alien arrive? What did it say and do? • What was the problem? • What did your teacher say and do?
• How was the problem solved? • What happened in the end?
2 Sort your ideas into three groups • beginning (characters and setting) • middle (the problem) • end (the solution). 3 In your journal, make a storyboard showing the steps in your story. Draw pictures and write one or two sentences under each one. Use a template like this. 1 2 3
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2 Write your first draft. Remember to write in paragraphs. 1 Read your first draft to a partner.
2 Listen carefully to your partner’s story. 3 Comment on it using the checklist below. 4 Listen to the comments your partner makes. 5 Make changes to your story to make it better.
Revision checklist
Are the ideas in the story clear? Does the story have interesting verbs and adjectives? Tell my partner one thing that I like about the story. Suggest one change to make the story better.
• Writing: Remind students about peer editing (revising their first draft with a partner). See page 31. • Schedule time for students to practise each stage of the writing process . They can revise a piece that they have written previously, working with a partner as in Exercise 2. • Study how a sample text was revised in ‘Sample Compositions’, page 169.
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