About the Create-A-Story Series: Step-by-Step Creative Writing Experiences:

Children can write, some better than others, but they all have the raw materials floating around in their lives. This fun series brings order to those raw materials and helps students sort and arrange that which is already familiar, using the results to create stories. Activities develop students abilities in observing, concluding, recalling, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating and help build important divergent and convergent thinking skills. As an added advantage, students will have an end product of which they will be proud!

Titles include Create-a-Monster, Create-an-Autobiography, Create-a-Comedy, Create-a-Sleuth, Create-a-Future, Create Heroes and Villains, Create-a-Utopia, Create-a-Fantasy and Create-a-Drama. If purchased separately, the cost of the books would be $134.55.

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Grades 4–12.

The lessons and activities in this series align with the following Common Core State Standards*:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.5.3, 5.4
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.6.3, 6.4
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.7.3, 7.4
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.3 ,8.4

Text Types and Purpose
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.
Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, description, and pacing, to develop experiences and events or show the responses of characters to situations.
Use a variety of transitional words, phrases, and clauses to manage the sequence of events.
Use concrete words and phrases and sensory details to convey experiences and events precisely.
Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events.

Production and Distribution of Writing
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.
With some guidance and support from adults, use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others; demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of two pages in a single sitting.

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*Authors: National Governors Association Center for Best Practices, Council of Chief State School Officers
Title: Common Core State Standards English Language Arts
Publisher: National Governors Association Center for Best Practices, Council of Chief State School Officers, Washington, D.C.
Copyright Date: 2010