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100-Word Stories
100-Word Stories
A Short Form for Expansive Writing
Grade: 5th-12th
Pub Date: 10/31/2023

What can 100-word stories help your students understand about writing? The short answer is, everything!

This flash-fiction form has become a popular structure for efficiently teaching a wide variety of literary devices, terms, and processes in a targeted way. Part teaching guide, part anthology, 100-Word Stories is a dynamic guide complete with
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Small, Bright Things: Teaching Writing with 100-Word Stories
Blog Post: Small, Bright Things: Teaching Writing with 100-Word Stories

Kim Culbertson holds an M.S. in Education, an MFA in Fiction, and has been teaching high school creative writing and English since 1997.In addition to teaching high school, Kim sits on the Writers Council for National Writing Project and works as a Fiction mentor with Dominican University of California’s MFA in Creative Writing.... more
The Stories of Science
The Stories of Science
Integrating Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening into Science Instruction,6–12
Grade: 6th-12th
Pub Date: 7/28/2017

Story powerfully integrates science and literacy

Stories are powerful connectors for people, information, and ideas. When you integrate stories into instruction, your students are more likely to actively engage and remember what they learn.

The Stories of Science explores how the power of story can strengthen your instruction by... more

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Reimagining Writing Assessment
Reimagining Writing Assessment
From Scales to Stories
Grade: K-12th
Pub Date: 11/1/2017

“This book is for teachers who want to honor their students’ experiences as writers and readers—and their own.” —Maja Wilson

In Reimagining Writing Assessment, Maja Wilson shows us that by replacing the scales embedded in rubrics with new tools--an array of interpretive lenses designed to observe and describe growth—we can create healthier... more

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Not Even Water?—?Stories of Ramadan
Blog Post: Not Even Water?—?Stories of Ramadan

There were no writing prompts about the holiday the day after we got back.These acts of inclusion call for both celebration and forwarding progress, as we continue to design the robust blueprint of equity we need in our public spaces.My work lives at the intersection of identity and getting proximate to the human story?—?to the identities of people who look and... more
Minds Made for Stories
Minds Made for Stories
How We Really Read and Write Informational and Persuasive Texts
Grade: 6th-12th
Pub Date: 8/14/2014

In this highly readable and provocative book, Thomas Newkirk explodes the long standing habit of opposing abstract argument with telling stories.  Newkirk convincingly shows that effective argument is already a kind of narrative and is deeply "entwined with narrative."

--Gerald Graff, former MLA President and author of Clueless in Academe

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Kim Culbertson

Kim Culbertson holds an M.S. in Education, an MFA in Fiction, and has been teaching high school creative writing and English since 1997. She is the award-winning author of five YA novels. Her titles Catch a Falling Star; The Possibility of Now; and The Wonder of Us were Scholastic book club selections. She won the Northern California Book Award... more

Grant Faulkner

Grant Faulkner is the Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and the co-founder of 100 Word Story. His book The Art of Brevity was released in... more

Why Bring Stories Into The Science Classroom?
Blog Post: Why Bring Stories Into The Science Classroom?

Greene says in Writing Science in Plain English: Many scientists see little connection between communicating their science and telling stories.... more
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