How to Write a Story is packed with easy-to-execute ideas and dozens of writing forms that will assist student in refining their sentence writing skills:, lessons and reproducibles to help students learn the parts of a story—characters, setting, plot, conclusion, reproducible planning forms to help students organize ideas and write a rough draft, guidelines for writing in six different genres--realistic fiction, historical fiction, mystery, adventure, fantasy, and science fiction, How to set up a Writing and Publishing Center, including reproducible story prompts and charts for planning stories in different genres.