Crafting Fiction Homeschool Language Arts

Welcome to Our Crafting Fiction Homeschool Language Arts Course

Is your child an aspiring author? Do you want to teach your middle school student how to shape all those imaginative ideas into a coherent story? Crafting Fiction is a seven-week course that helps to guide children through the process. The text-based lessons and short assignments help students discover the steps to writing a good fictional story.

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Crafting Fiction

Length: 7 weeks
Includes: Printable lessons
Grades: 5–7

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Getting Started with Our Crafting Fiction Homeschool Language Arts Course

This Crafting Fiction homeschool language arts course helps a student capture the story in their head and put it down on paper. Through bite-size assignments, the language arts lessons take the fear out of writing a fictional story and guide homeschool students through the process of writing, one step at a time.

Overview

  • 7 weeks, 3 days a week
  • Includes printable lessons and answer key
  • Grades: 5–7

Supplies Needed

Corresponding lessons on SchoolhouseTeachers.com; access to the Internet, computer and printer; 3-ring binder for notetaking and assignments.

What to Do

Go to Class Lessons and download the lesson plan and lessons file. Start with the Day 1 reading assignment. Follow the instructions each day on the lesson plan and check them off when completed.

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Course Sample for Our Crafting Fiction Homeschool Language Arts Course

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Week 1

Day 1: Characters

In this homeschool language arts course, we’re going to write fiction narratives. A narrative is simply a story, and most stories share some basic elements that we will cover as you begin to put together your own story.

Every story is about at least one person, a character. Interesting characters don’t have to be super mysterious or from another time period or world. In fact, some of the most interesting characters could be based upon people you’ve met during your life. The elderly lady who works as a cashier at the grocery store. The man who sells balloons at the fair. The teenage girl who works at a local ice cream shop. The middle-aged man who spends hours working in his garden.

Stories can and usually do have more than one character, but if you look carefully, they often have one main character. This character should have a problem (the conflict) that needs to be solved (we’ll get into conflict later), and by the end of the story, the main character should usually change or grow somehow, even if that change is to learn something.

Characters that change in a story are called dynamic characters. Characters that don’t change or change very little are called static characters.

But before we jump too far ahead, I want you to come up with some of your own characters. To come up with characters, start by considering what you know. However, because we’re going to be working with fiction, don’t come up with a character that is exactly like someone you know. Branch out a little and be creative.

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Course Outline for Our Crafting Fiction Homeschool Language Arts Course

Twenty-one bite-size Crafting Fiction homeschool language arts lessons guide students through the process of writing, one step at a time.

  • Week 1: Characters, Round vs. Flat, and Brainstorming
  • Week 2: Conflict, Types of Conflict, and Brainstorming Your Outline
  • Week 3: Setting—Place and Time
  • Week 4: Scenes, Dialogue, and Punctuation with Dialogue
  • Week 5: Balancing Scenes, Key Details and Wordiness, and Point of View
  • Week 6: The Beginning, Finishing Strong, and Using Transitions
  • Week 7: Revising Plot, Revising Scenes, and Editing for Grammar and Punctuation

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More About Our Crafting Fiction Homeschool Language Arts Course

From choosing characters to planning their dilemmas and setting them in scenes, writing a fictional story is not nearly as intimidating as it sounds, especially with this Crafting Fiction homeschool language arts course! Through text-based lessons and short assignments, students discover the steps to writing a good fictional story and make progress on those ideas that have been swirling around in their heads for far too long.

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Quick Start

1.  Bookmark the course for easy access during instruction.

2. Click “View Lesson Plan” and organize as desired (on computer desktop or in a printed format). 

3.  Gather necessary resources as listed in the lesson plan.

4.  Click “Go to Class Lessons” and get started.

5.  Enjoy the course!

6.  Utilize Applecore or your own record keeping system throughout the course.

7.  Print a certificate of completion.

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