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Plot for Kids and Young Adults
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Students are required to use plot, yet the extent of teaching reaches only to creating a series of events.
Plot is so much more.
Students who understand the universal story form and the use of plot are better writers and readers.
- Added on: Mar 28th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Martha Alderson, M.A.
- Listed in: Education How-To
- Tags: structure plot character development writing plot dramatic action thematic significance
Recent Posts
Plot Workshop for Kids and Teens
Later this month I am scheduled to teach plot and writing to kids in the town I recently moved away from after having lived there for 30 years. This is to be the last of these annual offerings. I am sad to see the end of both that program and the one...
Plot at the Local Children's Shelter
Seven young adults between the ages of 12 to 17 shuffle inside the Children Shelter’s classroom. The boys loom large. The girls shift from motherly to sexy and back, like blinking red lights. I break down some stories to them with a focus on the Be...
KIDS
Appropriate for a group activity or individually1) Decide on a main character ~~ person, animal, machine, made-up2) Give the character a goal ~~ something she/he/it wants more than anything else.3) Make a list of possible bad guys and things that can...
TEACHERS
Saturday, at the Asilomar Regional Reading Conference, I sat in on a class where the teacher demonstrated one method of writing instruction currently being used with students in public schools. Since then, I've been trying to understand what I saw. F...
Asilomar Regional Reading Conference
Planning for the big day on Saturday. I have way too many examples and information to share in just an hour. Setting it up so the teachers will act as students. I'll go through the Plot Planner and Scene Tracker techniques to show how to help improve...
Young Writers Workshop
Saturday was the second of the two Young Writers Workshops I teach annually through the Friends of the Los Gatos Library sponsorship. Dark day full of rain outside. Inside, 14 soggy kids straggled in. 8 - 13 years old, some returnees, others with the...
as a wanna be writer of children's books, your blog gives me many materials for possible stories and plot directions. thanks.
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