Story CraftingEdition 1

The “Literacy: Made for All” series is a classroom-ready, teacher-friendly resource for English and Writing teachers of Grades 9 through 12. Organized buffet style, it is designed to complement an existing English curriculum by providing a tested repertoire of strategies for teaching both writing skills and literary analysis techniques. STORY CRAFTING focuses on the creation, editing, polishing and sharing of short stories and longer prose fiction.

Benefits and Features:

tested and proven effective at all learning levels, from Remedial to Pre-APprovides complete lesson plans including reproducible materials can be implemented as is or modified to suit individual teaching styles and/or students' needseach skill, assignment or project begins by 'teaching the teacher', giving an inexperienced teacher the knowledge to provide effective instruction first time out and the confidence to modify and experiment thereaftercomprised of reading, writing, literary criticism and language-study componentsmoves students from writing effectively to reading analytically (approaching text from the authoring point of view), a proven, highly successful methodologycan turn any English course into a Literacy courseextremely versatile and cost-effectivecan deepen an existing English course or complete the framework for a new one
STORY CRAFTING focuses on the creation, production and sharing of a variety of nonfiction writing projects. The textcan be implemented in the classroom alone or in tandem with the two other titles in the Literacy: Made for All Series —WORDSMITHING and ENJOYING LITERATURE.


Also of interest for classroom teachers is the Let Them Write Series

CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT: Classroom Ready Materials for Teaching Writing and Literary Analysis Skills in Grades 4 to 8
PLOT BUILDING: Classroom Ready Materials for Teaching Writing and Literary Analysis Skills in Grades 4 to 8
SETTING AND DESCRIPTION: Classroom Ready Materials for Teaching Writing and Literary Analysis Skills in Grades 4 to 8