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Using Technology to Lift the Level of Narrative Writing

This article explores how technology can enhance narrative writing through generating ideas, drafting and nurturing, elaborating and editing, and revising and publishing. It includes a framework of individual lessons and various examples and resources for fiction and personal narrative writing.

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Using Technology to Lift the Level of Narrative Writing

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  1. Using Technology to Lift the Level of Narrative Writing By: Heather Onderick MAIS 2011

  2. Lucy Calkins’ Lens • Generating Ideas • Drafting/ Nurturing Ideas • Elaborating/ Editing • Revising/ Publishing

  3. Framework of Individual Lessons • Mini-Lesson • Modeling with your own text/ mentor texts • Practicing as a class, in writing groups, pairs or individually • Applying it to your own writing

  4. Fiction • Generating Ideas • Lesson 1: Showing movie/tv previews, • The Fall trailer • Modern family clip

  5. Fiction • Generating Ideas 2: • Using events in the real world to help us create ideas for stories • http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ • http://www.nytimes.com

  6. Personal Narrative • Generating Ideas 3: • Using popular songs: U2;Venezuela

  7. Fiction/ Personal Narrative • Drafting/ Nurturing • Dialogue, Details, Actions, Inner thinking • Narrative elements: Juan's story elements • Comic Life: Morocco at the Market

  8. Fiction/ Personal Narrative • Elaborating/ Editing • Character development: Facebook profiles • Studying video clips for setting, character, dialogue development, leads and endings: That's So Raven- Get outta dodge • Jimmy walks!

  9. Fiction/ Personal Narrative • Revising/ Publishing • Online peer editing: Color-coding and discussion threads: JaeHee’s Folktale • Podcasts: Listening to The moth using Audacity to publish your stories. • Movie trailers for your writing:Before I fall • Creating a soundtrack for your story or personal narrative

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