Comments on: Children’s Picture Book Author Explains Plotting for Kids

By: Sheralee Hill Iglehart

Sheralee Hill Iglehart — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:38:00 +0000

Deborah Underwood : Your ingenity, originalty, are amazing! Sheralee Hill Iglehart B.S.,M.A. California Reading Specialist, website: sheralee.com

By: Natasha Wing

Natasha Wing — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 03:21:09 +0000

The Story Spine helped me rethink a story I’m in the process of editing – thanks!

By: Donna Perugini

Donna Perugini — Sun, 30 May 2010 22:06:46 +0000

Well put! Thank you for that exercise….

By: Janelle

Janelle — Fri, 14 May 2010 18:44:59 +0000

What great information. My daughter loves to start her stories with Once Upon a Time. I’m sure she’d love playing the collaborative game with me.

By: Megan Frances

Megan Frances — Fri, 14 May 2010 16:08:08 +0000

It can be really helpful to reduce story structure to basics – even for adult writers. Thanks for the reminder.

By: debbie

debbie — Fri, 14 May 2010 15:16:55 +0000

Thanks for this! I’m going to try the “story spine” idea in a workshop I’m doing soon with 4-6 year olds – we will be creating characters together, and then will craft stories & illustrated “books” based on them. This looks like a terrific way to get the children going on their characters’ stories.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 13 May 2010 04:27:44 +0000

I love Mentor Texts — here’s a link if anyone wants one. http://www.teacher2teacherhelp.com/mentor-texts/

Cynthia, thanks for reminding us how cultural our story structures can be — I’ll be hitting you up for a guest post soon. I don’t know very much about that and I know YOU are the expert.

I’m going to try the Story Spine game with my kids this weekend. Can’t wait! Anyone else?

Melissa

By: Stacey

Stacey — Thu, 13 May 2010 04:21:11 +0000

Another great book that teaches scaffolds for writing is called Mentor Texts: Teaching writing through Children’s Literature. Our school did a book study with this particular text since we use Writing Workshop and it is by far one of the best professional development texts I have read and has had a significant impact on my student’s writing abilities.