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1. Write narratives that maintain a clear focus and point of view and use sensory details and dialogue to develop plot, character and a specific setting.

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	Writers' Window http://english.unitecnology.ac.nz/writers/home.html This website allows students to submit their own writing online to be reviewed by others, and to review the works of other users. The writing categories include short stories, chapter stories, poems, book reviews, general reviews, reports, essays, and plays. The age categories are 5-8, 9-12, 13-15, and 16+.	Report problem w/ this link Add resource to POW-PAK	By: Eric Curts - Edit - Duplicate
	Literary Elements Map http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/lit-elements/ "This tool includes a set of graphic organizers designed to assist teachers and students in prewriting and postreading activities, focusing on the key elements of character, setting, conflict, and resolution development. As with the Story Map, this interactive can be used in multiple contexts, whether they be author studies, genre studies, or thematic units, among others. Students can map out the key literary elements for a variety purposes, including response to literature or as a prewriting activity when composing their own fiction. After completing individual sections or the entire organizer, students have the ability to print out their final versions for feedback and assessment."	Report problem w/ this link Add resource to POW-PAK	By: Eric Curts - Edit - Duplicate
	Writing with Writers http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/index.htm This website uses published authors to teach about writing in different genres including Biographies, Descriptive Writing, Folktales, Mysteries, Myths, News, Poetry, Speeches, Book Reviews. In each section you can read (and sometimes hear) the author's work. Then the author gives practical instruction on how to write in the genre. Finally you get to submit your own work for possible publication on the Scholastic web site.	Report problem w/ this link Add resource to POW-PAK	By: Eric Curts - Edit - Duplicate
	Fiction Press http://www.fictionpress.com/ This website allows users to submit their own writing online to be reviewed by others, and to review the works of other users. The categories include fiction and poetry (with multiple subcategories under each). Currently Fiction Press has over half a million writers/readers, and over 900,000 original works. Note: Although this site is fine for students, it is not exclusively for students, so adults post writings here as well. As always, provide your students with proper instruction and supervision.	Report problem w/ this link Add resource to POW-PAK	By: Eric Curts - Edit - Duplicate
	WritingFix Interactive Writing Prompts http://writingfix.com/ This website randomly generates hundreds and hundreds of writing prompts covering many purposes, styles, and topics. The organization of the site can be a little confusing, but just click on the links at the very top to get to the prompt generators. This includes right-brained writing prompts, left-brained writing prompts, poetic prompts, picture book prompts, chapter book prompts, literature prompts, and many more. Along with the generated prompts, the site gives instruction on style, grammar, and literary elements. This is a fantastic site to encourage, instruct, and improve all styles of writing.	Report problem w/ this link Add resource to POW-PAK	By: Eric Curts - Edit - Duplicate
	Interactive Plot Prompts from WritingFix http://writingfix.com/right_brain/Serendipitous_Plots1.htm This page at WritingFix specifically deals with plot. This website randomly generates three parts of a plot, including setting, character, and conflict. Then you write a story that incorporates all three. Along with the generated prompts, the site gives instruction on style, grammar, and literary elements. This is a fantastic site to encourage, instruct, and improve all styles of writing.	Report problem w/ this link Add resource to POW-PAK	By: Eric Curts - Edit - Duplicate
	Interactive Setting Prompts from WritingFix http://writingfix.com/right_brain/Serendipitous_Setting1.htm This page at WritingFix specifically deals with setting. This website randomly generates a setting made of an adjective, a place, and a descriptive phrase. Then you write a story or paragraph that incorporates all three as the setting. This is a fantastic site to encourage, instruct, and improve all styles of writing.	Report problem w/ this link Add resource to POW-PAK	By: Eric Curts - Edit - Duplicate
	Interactive Character Prompts from WritingFix http://writingfix.com/right_brain/Serendipitous_Character1.htm This page at WritingFix specifically deals with characters. This website randomly generates a character made from an adjective, a character, and a descriptive phrase. Then you write a story or paragraph that incorporates that character. This is a fantastic site to encourage, instruct, and improve all styles of writing.	Report problem w/ this link Add resource to POW-PAK	By: Eric Curts - Edit - Duplicate
	Character Trading Cards http://readwritethink.org/materials/trading_cards/ "Using popular culture texts in the classroom offers students an alternative way to demonstrate their literacy knowledge and skills and to engage in meaningful literary practices. The Character Trading Cards tool allows students to create their own character cards, which they can then print off, illustrate, and trade or keep. It can be used with characters in a book students are reading or as a prewriting exercise for students who are writing narrative stories. Specific prompts ask students to describe the character, look at his or her thoughts and feelings, explore how he or she develops, identify important thoughts and actions, and make personal connections to the character. The accompanying planning sheet allows students to draft and revise their work before going online to use the interactive."	Report problem w/ this link Add resource to POW-PAK	By: Eric Curts - Edit - Duplicate
	Circle Plot Diagram http://readwritethink.org/materials/circle-plot/ "Introducing the concept of text structure to elementary students is made easy—and fun!—through the use of the Circle Plot Diagram. The tool can be used as a prewriting graphic organizer for students writing original stories with a circular plot structure (e.g., If You Take a Mouse to School), as well as a postreading organizer used to explore the text structures in a book. By students inserting main examples of a story’s plot directly onto the circular interactive, the concepts of structure and plot are reinforced each time the tool is used. When used as a prewriting exercise, the diagram can be printed out and shared with peers and teacher for feedback and revision in this phase of the writing process."	Report problem w/ this link Add resource to POW-PAK	By: Eric Curts - Edit - Duplicate