This document provides guidance on teaching paragraph writing and narratives to students. It recommends starting with simple stories, pictures, and texts to expose students to language. Weaker learners should begin with guided writing. Activities include using pictures to tell stories, a writing game where students cover and guess words from a story, demonstrated and shared writing with student input, and guided collaborative writing using sentence frames to master structure. The goal is to make writing instruction fun while building vocabulary and grammar skills.

1. EXTRACTING
THE JUICE
PART 4:
TEACHING PARAGRAPH WRITING AND NARRATIVES

2. Inspire

3. The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

4. “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the
time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
~ Stephen King

5. Define
Narrative writing

6. Be Creative
Activity 1: Start by using simple stories.

7. Use pictures and texts.
Expose students to
the language.

8. Focused word work:
Vocabulary and
grammar items

11. For weaker learners Start with guided
writing in the first
stages.

12. Don’t forget to make it fun!

13. Activity 2: Writing Pelmanism

14. 1. Read the story a few
times.
2. Cover some words /
phrases /sentences.
3. Ask students to
guess the covered
words / phrases /
sentences.
4. Gradually increase
the number of
covered words /
phrases / sentences
until everything is
covered.
5. Ask students to
rewrite the story.

15. Activity 3: Modelled and shared writing.

16. Introduce the key words / vocabulary.

17. Teacher demonstrates it to
the students first.
Encourage students to give
their ideas / inputs.

19. Activity 4: Guided collaborative writing.

20. Use the sentence panel. Let the students master the
sentence structure.

21. Introduce time markers, conjunctions and
connectors.

26. Cynthia C. James
‘Beyond Chalk & Talk’
http://cindyjbj79.blogspot.com