Guide writing A short story

Transversals objectives
Writing in a clear letter separating the words with a space in order that it could be read by
others easily.
Incorporate the pertinent way in the writing the new vocabulary extracted by the listening
or reading text

Aim of learning Suggested evaluation

Write creatively narrations (personal experience,
stories, tale of real events, etc. Which contain
context, climax, conclusion.
They write one or more paragraph to
narrate their experiences or imaginary
event.
They write narrations which the story
develops across of many actions
They write narrations which contain a
conclusion.

1. Writing story from a sequence of drawings

The teacher selects a sequence of attractive drawings which contains a story. He/she
can deliver a copy to each student or to project it. First from the drawing the students
tell an orally story to their classmate then they write it. The teacher helps in the writing,
review and the edit of the text.
2. Variations

a) Write a story of your family or your neighbor.

The students have asked during the previous day to their family or their neighbor who
tell them something that happened in their life, they can show the drawings that the
teacher gave them to help them if they dont know how to start, then they write their
story.

b) A story done in three parts

In team of three persons, after they exchange their personal stories the teacher invite
them to write one story by team. The students write their own stories using temporary
connectors which contain context, climax, conclusion, first, after, next and finally. The
teacher checks their text taking into account that the text is understood. The teacher
checks the grammar; commas, point, variety of vocabulary, agreement, etc. Finally, the
teacher invite them to publish their stories in whole school.