As promised, I want to share another lesson I presented at High Bridge Elementary. Lynn H. requested a lesson that would help her fourth graders write
the middle of their stories or personal narratives. There are oodles of lessons for teaching beginnings and endings, but how do we guide students through the midsection?

As I told the students, I , like so many of us who write fiction, complain about the "murky middle." Leaving my beginning behind, I feel as if I've stepped into a...
Published on May 23, 2010 09:47