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Plot for Kids and Young Adults

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Students are required to use plot, yet the extent of teaching reaches only to creating a series of events.

Plot is so much more.

Students who understand the universal story form and the use of plot are better writers and readers.

Added on: Mar 28th, 2008
Country: United States
Language: English

Author: Martha Alderson, M.A.
Listed in: Education How-To
Tags: structure plot character development writing plot dramatic action thematic significance

Recent Posts

Plot Workshop for Kids and Teens

Posted on Saturday July 11th, 2009 at 16:13 in plot for kids and teens, writing for kids and teens

Later this month I am scheduled to teach plot and writing to kids in the town I recently moved away from after having lived there for 30 years. This is to be the last of these annual offerings. I am sad to see the end of both that program and the one...
Plot at the Local Children's Shelter

Posted on Wednesday October 1st, 2008 at 22:41 in writing as healing, children shelter writing program, young adult writers

Seven young adults between the ages of 12 to 17 shuffle inside the Children Shelter’s classroom. The boys loom large. The girls shift from motherly to sexy and back, like blinking red lights. I break down some stories to them with a focus on the Be...
KIDS

Posted on Tuesday March 4th, 2008 at 20:00 in stories, characters, antagonists

Appropriate for a group activity or individually1) Decide on a main character ~~ person, animal, machine, made-up2) Give the character a goal ~~ something she/he/it wants more than anything else.3) Make a list of possible bad guys and things that can...
TEACHERS

Posted on Tuesday March 4th, 2008 at 18:26 in crisis, climax, elementary teachers, writing great ficiton, great fiction

Saturday, at the Asilomar Regional Reading Conference, I sat in on a class where the teacher demonstrated one method of writing instruction currently being used with students in public schools. Since then, I've been trying to understand what I saw. F...
Asilomar Regional Reading Conference

Posted on Thursday February 28th, 2008 at 15:33 in plot planner, teachers' guide, scene tracker, teachers as students

Planning for the big day on Saturday. I have way too many examples and information to share in just an hour. Setting it up so the teachers will act as students. I'll go through the Plot Planner and Scene Tracker techniques to show how to help improve...
Young Writers Workshop

Posted on Monday February 25th, 2008 at 15:37 in plot structure, young writers workshop

Saturday was the second of the two Young Writers Workshops I teach annually through the Friends of the Los Gatos Library sponsorship. Dark day full of rain outside. Inside, 14 soggy kids straggled in. 8 - 13 years old, some returnees, others with the...