Story Elements & Writing Contest!

In the 4th grade curriculum, students are required to use specific details from a fictional story to describe in-depth a character, setting and events(CCSS 4.RL.). In order to describe in-depth, students need to have a deep understanding of these story elements, and how the elements help to develop a story. Students are also required to write stories using clear sequence of events and descriptive details (CCSS W.4.3). What better way to combine these two standards (along with several other Speaking & Listening and Language standards) than to have a contest?!

This is where Scholastic, and famous authors Dav Pilkey and Jeff Kinney come in! Scholastic.com is sponsoring a contest for students to finish a story mash-up that Pilkey and Kinney started. Here is the link for the contest: http://www.scholastic.com/kpwebcast/

Link to materials: http://www.scholastic.com/kpwebcast/pdf/kinney_pilkey_story_smashup.pdf