Writing a “Known” Holiday Story in Their Own Words (For Middle Schoolers) - How I Teach

Welcome to HIT---How I Teach....In this episode, I teach how I teach beginning story writing for upper elementary and middle school students. Beginning story writing is often challenging for young writers. They often do not understand the elements of story writing (even if given instructions—which can often be vague), so they end up writing a re-telling at best or a hybrid story/essay.

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