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- Grades 4 - 12
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Product Code 040-7AP ( MR #000872 )
Professional resources, assessments, and educational books.
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Students like to create, write, and share stories; however, they can be baffled and become resentful when told to write a short story without being shown how to write one. Not knowing where nor how to begin, much less how to develop and end, they often write one skimpy paragraph and call it a short story. Conversely, when they are led through the structure of a story step by step, they often surprise themselves with the results.?
Wise teachers capitalize on popular culture in the classroom. They begin with what is already familiar and interesting to students and use that knowledge and interest as springboards to introduce new knowledge. Create-a-Comedy: Writing a Humorous Story builds on the existing sense of humor students already possess and their familiarity with situation comedies on television and other forms of humor. Some teachers are afraid to encourage laughter in the classroom because they fear it will “get out of hand”; however, laughter has too much positive power not to become a teaching tool. ?
Humor is an end in itself because it leads to joy, relaxation, and the temporary forgetting of life’s sorrows and aggravations; however, humor is also a valuable and versatile tool which teachers can and should use regularly in the classroom. Humor can be the spark that lights reluctant learners; it can expand imaginations; it can convey harsh realities in such ways as to help students deal with uncomfortable things about themselves and their families; it is an equalizer; and finally, it may work when everything else fails in overcoming sorrow and depression.?
Children can write—some better than others, of course, but they all have the raw materials needed for creative writing floating around in their lives. Create-a-Comedy is designed to bring order to those raw materials, help students sort and arrange that which is already familiar, and use the results to create stories. In the process of creating their stories, students will examine, discuss, and learn many new concepts. The by-products can be as rewarding as the finished stories. Create-a-Comedy may be used as a creative writing unit, or it may be used in conjunction with a unit on humorous literature.
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Create-A-Story Series
Create Heroes and Villains
Writing an Adventure Story
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Create-A-Story Series
Create-A-Drama
Writing a Script
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Create-A-Story Series
Create-A-Fantasy
Writing a Whimsical Story
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Create-A-Story Series
Create-A-Future
Writing a Science Fiction Story
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Create-A-Story Series
Create-A-Monster
Writing a Horror Story
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Create-A-Story Series
Create-An-Autobiography
Writing from Experiences
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Create-A-Story Series
Create-A-Sleuth
Writing a Detective Story
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Create-A-Story Series
Create-A-Utopia
Writing an Idealistic Story
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