Writers Workshop Mini Lesson

Mini Lesson: (Skill) Story Writing

Target Population: 3rd Grade

Common Core Standards: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.3. Write narratives to develop real

or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and
clear event sequences.

Goals: The students will learn how to write their own fairy tale.

Objective:
Standard -CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.3.A-Write narratives to develop real or imagined

experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.

Cognitive Objective- With materials provided, The student will develop a fairy tale story with a

beginning, middle, and end.

Affective Objective- While participating in the writing workshop, the student will interact

appropriately with their peers with at least a on the rubric.

Materials
1. The Three Little Pigs by: Barbara Brenner
2. The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig by: Eugene Trivizas
3. Paper
4. Pencils
5. Drama props

Procedure
Before: The teacher will review The Three Little Pigs by: Barbara Brenner and The
Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig by: Eugene Trivizas. The students will discuss the
stories and the sequence of events. The student will then discuss the differences between the two
stories. Discuss the word sequence. What does it mean? Explain its the order of events in the
story. The teacher will discuss the sequence of the story including beginning, middle, and end
and the details in between. Leading questions: what happens first in the story? What did the
little pigs/wolves build? What happens in the middle of the story? what does the wolf/pig
do? which pig/wolf built their house better? Why? What happened at the end of each
story? Was that fair? Could they have done something different to the wolf/pig to be a nicer
person? What else could they have done to end the story better? Finally, they will discuss
how the story ended and in what way they couldve changed the story to make it fairer ending.
During: The students will work on their story with their partner. The students will write
their own fairy tale. They can write it like The Three Little Pigs by: Barbara Brenner and The
Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig by: Eugene Trivizas, or base it off their own ideas and
experiences. The students must include a beginning, middle, and end. The story must have a
problem and the students are writing to find a solution. The story should begin with once upon
a time. The story will also need to include sequential words such as: Once upon a time, first,
then, and last. The students must also use details for the characters with feelings and actions to
make the story as descriptive as possible. The students will first work in pairs to create the
sequence of the book. The students will use index cards to write the beginning, middle, and end.

After: After the students have completed the basics of the story, the teacher will have the
students illustrate the sequence in their books.

Extension: Incorporate drama into the activity by allowing the students to act out their
story when they are finish writing it. The class will have a publishing party including the families
and will use props to match their stories.

Assessment: The students writing will be assessed by their ability to write the story in
sequential order and using correct words and phrases to describe the order of the story.

Table 1
Cognitive Objective Checklist

Student Student had a beginning, The student used words

middle, and end to the and phrases to describe the
story. order of the story.

Student 1

Student 2
Student 3

Student 4

Table 1 above is a checklist that will be marked with an X based on the students story
writing. If the student correctly completes each area an X will be marked in the correct box.

Table 2

Affective Objective Rubric

0 1 2
The student did not The student somewhat The student appropriately
collaborate with their peers collaborated with their peers collaborated with their peers
during the writing workshop. during the writing workshop. during the writing workshop.

In table 2 above, the area that fits the students behavior during the writing workshop will
be highlighted.