Third Grade · Writing · week 32

Draft a Full Story

Combine story mountain planning, dialogue, and showing details into one complete narrative draft.

This week you write your full narrative draft, using everything from this unit: your story mountain plan, your character's want and obstacle, at least one dialogue exchange, and at least one showing sentence for a feeling.

Write your story in order, following your story mountain: beginning, rising action, climax, falling action, ending. Do not worry about making it perfect -- this is a first full draft.

Use sequence words where helpful, but let some sentences flow naturally too, now that you are writing a full story instead of just single sentences.

📋 For the teacher
Teach it (10–15 min):
  • Let your child write this draft with real independence -- this is the first time seeing the whole story as one connected piece.
  • Resist fixing anything yet; this week is about getting the full story down, not perfecting it.
  • If your child gets stuck at a certain part, point back to that week's specific tool (dialogue, showing, story mountain) rather than supplying new content.
  • Read the finished draft aloud together and simply enjoy hearing the whole story for the first time.
Talk about it:
  • Does your draft follow all five parts of your story mountain?
  • Where did you use dialogue, and where did you use a showing sentence?
  • What part of your story are you most excited about so far?

Mastery looks like: They independently draft a complete narrative following the story mountain structure, including at least one dialogue exchange and one showing sentence.

Common stumbles: Rushing through the climax without enough detail, since it is often the hardest part to slow down and describe; forgetting to include a planned dialogue exchange or showing sentence.

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