Teaching Narrative Writing with Frankenstories

That's it for this lesson! We hope you and your students found it useful.

If you need advice on next steps, here are some suggestions.

Apply these skills to longer narratives

The concepts and skills we've taught here are optimised for improvisation, but they're transferable to "real" writing.

We have some advice in Teaching with Frankenstories on how to apply one to the other.

Go deeper into narrative writing technique

Writelike has a series of narrative lessons with extensive mentor-text modelling activities.

Many of these lessons & activities have been converted into hundreds of Frankenstories prompts, exploring everything from character description to point of view.

For example:

• "Take one feature of this character and then keep exaggerating it." [Writelike page] [Example game]
• "Describe their most strongly held goal. Elaborate on it in detail—what do they want to achieve and why?" [Writelike page] [Example game]
• "Use juxtaposition to contrast two time periods." [Writelike page] [Example game]

Try argument writing

Frankenstories is great for learning argumentation and persuasive writing.

If you want to start, dive into Teaching Argument Writing with Frankenstories.

See you next time!