Story Map Writing in Ms. Camp's Class

Story Map Writing
ELA Standard 2

Philosophy of Story Map Writing - and Recipe for the Paragraph
Language used to Guide Student's Thinking for each of the Paragraph Types
Optimal Learning Model: Recipe for teaching Story Map Writing
Teaching Sentence Fluency and Language Skills
Generic Story Map

Problem - Solution
- Stories (Teacher Guides and Student Exemplars)
Cause - Effect
- Stories (Teacher Guides and Student Exemplars)
Character Trait
- Stories (Teacher Guides and Student Exemplars)

Original Proposal for Use of Graphic Organizers and Paragraph Writing as Alternative Language Arts Assessment in Grade 3 (Spring, 2002). Note: This PDF document is about 9 MB large and will take a few minutes to load. Description of the Assessment, Teacher Language, and Student Exemplars are useful. However, most of the graphic organizers and rubrics have been changed and are no longer used. To see how the program has evolved into "Story Map Writing," click on "Philosophy of Story Map Writing" above. (Main Idea - Detail and Compare-Contrast are covered in the section on 4-Square Writing)
Example of Long-range planning for Guided Reading and Writing using the Optimal Learning Model
Two examples of newsletters for parents regarding Story Map Writing on Problem-Solution (as Special Education teacher): Example 1 and Example 2

Credits: Special thanks to Nancy Green for introducing me to the Optimal Learning Model, and for her modeling for me much of the "teacher language" found in the Original Proposal for our Alternative Language Arts Assessment. Thanks also to the LWW Third Grade Study Group who collaborated on, an piloted, the alternative assessment program.