Narrative Writing Intervention Toolkit: 72 Small Group Lessons & Teacher Guides

This Narrative Writing Intervention Toolkit features 72 small group lessons and is designed to help you identify the intervention your students need and exactly what lesson to do to help them grow! Each of the 72 lessons/strategy cards helps you intervene meaningfully at every step of the narrative writing process.

⭐ What's included in this Narrative Writing Intervention Toolkit - Small Group Lessons?

1. The Teacher’s Guide to Writing Intervention:

A 35 page guide to show you how to…

• Structure your writing block
• Make the most of whole-group instruction (12 detailed tips)
• Guide students through the writing process
• Review student writing with a rubric
• Group students for intervention
• Plan future instruction based on student needs
• Conduct writing conferences
• Grow students’ writing independence

2. The Writing Intervention Strategy Ring:

A collection of 72 strategy lessons on cards to help you intervene with…

• Prewriting
• Generating ideas
• Planning and organizing student writing
• Narrowing a topic
• Drafting
• Revising for coherence, focus, organization, sentence structure, word choice, and more
• Editing for capitalization, punctuation, grammar, and spelling

3. The Teacher’s Guide to the Intervention Strategy Ring:

A 110 page guide that includes…

• Directions on how to build and use the strategy ring
• Writing samples for each of the 72 strategies
• Printable tools for planning, organizing, editing and more

Here's the complete table of contents for each component of the Narrative Writing Intervention Toolkit - Small Group Lessons:

1. The Teacher’s Guide to Writing Intervention:

• Binder cover
• Components of writer’s workshop
• 12 Tips to help you make the most of whole-group instruction
• Guiding students through the writing process
• A teacher’s guide to reviewing student writing
• Narrative writing rubric
• Individual writing review
• Writing roster
• Narrative writing analysis spreadsheet
• Intervention grouping mat
• Conventions grouping mat
• Writing process grouping mat
• Next steps for instruction planner
• How to use the writing intervention strategy ring
• Tips for successful small group intervention
• Different approaches to growing student writers
• How to conduct a writing conference
• Conference log
• Writing conference questions
• How to grow students' writing independence

2. The Writing Intervention Strategy Ring:

72 strategy lessons with the printables you need to teach them!

Prewriting Intervention Lessons

Generating Ideas & Brainstorming

• Wordless Picture Books
• Shared Experience
• Steal an Idea
• Mapping a Special Place
• Special Objects
• All the Feels
• Special People
• Envision an Audience
• Guided Quickwrite
• Choosing an Idea: Tell Me About It

Narrowing a Focus:

• Zoom it In
• The Triangle

Planning

• Sticky Note Sequencing
• Comic Strip
• Scaffolded Graphic Organizer

Drafting Intervention Lessons

• Using the Plan
• Talk it Out
• Talking/Thinking Bubbles
• Adding On with Sentence Starters
• Visualizing with a Quick Sketch
• Consider Your Audience
• Steal a Beginning
• Just Jump In
• The Basic Beginning
• The Basic Ending
• Steal an Ending
• Visualizing the Ending

Revising Intervention Lessons

Goal Setting:

• Using the Rubric to Set a Goal

Focus

• Stay in One Spot
• What’s the Message?
• What’s the Story?
• The Cheetah & the Sloth

Coherence

• Imagine the Audience
• Pronoun Referents
• Who & Where?
• Just the Facts
• Cut it Up

Organization

• Act it Out
• Move it!
• Reverse Mapping

Adding Development

• Topic Words
• Language Graffiti
• Sensory Language
• Reacting to Events
• My Face When…
• Find a Place
• The 5 Questions

Sentence Fluency

• Combine it
• Notice the Start
• Stolen Lines

Word Choice

• Repeated Words
• Stolen Words

Editing Intervention Lessons:

Grammar

• Run On Sentences: Run Ons: And Then!
• Run On Sentences: New Subject, New Sentence
• Fragments: Who Did What?
• Subject/Verb Agreement: Match it!
• Verb Tense: Highlight it!

Punctuation

• Comma Search
• End Marks: Mark it!
• Dialogue: What’d They Say?

Spelling

• Personal Word List
• The Word Wall
• Find it Somewhere
• Stretch it Out
• Sound Options
• Contractions: Squished Words

Other Skills

• Apostrophes: Plural or Possessive?
• Apostrophes: Whose is it?
• Homophones: Which One is it?
• Capitalization: Prove It
• Building Editing Habits: The Personalized Checklist
• Building Editing Independence: Scavenger Hunt

3. The Teacher’s Guide to the Intervention Strategy Ring:

• Writing sample for each intervention strategy with a of how to use the strategy
• Directions on how to assemble and use the strategy ring
• Printable tools for the strategies that require them, including...
  • Comic Strip template for planning (2 versions)
  • Scaffolded personal narrative planner (3 versions)
  • Sentence starter add-ons (a mini card)
  • Pronouns guide (a mini card)
  • Transitional phrases list (a mini card)
  • Language graffiti brainstorming handout
  • Reactions sentence starters (a mini card)
  • Find a place (a mini card revision guide)
  • Combining sentence options guide
  • Synonyms to replace repeated words list
  • Guide to using commas
  • Guide to end marks (a mini card)
  • Guide to dialogue (a mini card)
  • Personal Spelling list handout
  • Spelling tools: sound options
  • Consonant Blends
  • Consonant Diagraphs
  • Word Families
  • Vowel Sounds
  • Vowel Digraphs
  • Endings
  • R-Controlled Sounds
  • Common contractions list
  • Guide to apostrophes
  • Common homophones visual list
  • Capitalization options board
  • Personal Editing checklists: 3 filled versions and 2 blank for printing and personalizing
  • Editing scavenger hunt (3 versions)

⭐ File Type

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⭐ Licensing Terms

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