Books 4 Results - Circle Story Writing with Results

Books for Results - Circle Story Writing with Results

By JoAnne Moore
Canadian: $24.95
American: $24.95

Book Summary: Authors use common story plots written in hundreds of different ways to write their books. Six of the story plots they use are circle, copycat, contest, stuck, switch, and transformation. They use the writing techniques of showing, onomatopoeia and sensory imagery to make their writing alive. The first goal of this book is to help children learn the circle pattern and use it to write a successful story. Circle stories are one of the most common patterns. Circle stories begin and end in the same place. They involve a journey that may or may not be physical. Books about time travel, journeys, adventures, dreams, entering other worlds, and self-acceptance are often circle stories. The story book called The Best Nest by P.D. Eastman is a journey story. Eastman’s book, along with a teacher story (included in the book) called "The Way Home", are used as models for the children to write from.

The children change the setting and the characters of P.D. Eastman’s book in order to write their own story about two animals that are tired of their present home. The animals go in search of a new one only to discover a problem with each location. At last they return to the old home and are happy again. The second goal of the book is to teach children how to incoroporate the writing techniques of showing, onomatopoeia, and sensory imagery. Therefore, the format this book takes is the dialogue between the teacher and students as they write the four lessons needed to complete the story.