Historical Fiction Writing

4th Graders are currently working hard in their historical fiction writing unit. In this lesson we used one of our historical fiction mentor texts to help us in our own writing by thinking about the way fiction stories usually go.

After reading "Baseball Saved Us, " by Ken Mochizuki we mapped out the story into a 'story mountain,' making sure to identify the lead, sequential events, heart of the story, and the closing.   Writers used their knowledge of story mountains from our realistic fiction unit in the Fall.

After creating a story mountain for our mentor text, writers applied this planning strategy to the their own historical fiction writing.