UNIT 4
From Scenes to Series: Writing Fiction

BEND I ♦ Fiction Writers Set Out to Write Realistic Fiction!

Session 1 – Serious Fiction Writers Do Some Serious Pretending
Chart: Fiction Writers…

Session 2 – Writers Develop a "Can-Do," Independent Attitude
Chart: How to Write a Realistic Fiction Book

Session 3 – Writers Learn to Get Their Characters Out of Trouble
Chart: Fiction Writers Get Their Character Out of Trouble

Session 4 – Serious Writers Get Serious About Spelling
Chart: Ways to Spell Words

Session 5 – Taking Stock: Writers Use Checklists to Set Goals
Narrative Writing Checklist, Grades 1 and 2
FIG. 5–1 Miles' story
FIG. 5–2 Nora's third and fourth pages

BEND II ♦ Fiction Writers Set Out to Write Series

Session 9 – Saddle Up to the Revision Party—and Bring Your Favorite Writer
Chart: We Are Serious Writers!

Session 10 – Celebrating Our First Series
My Editing Checklist (Unit 4)
FIG. 10–2 One of Nora's revised stories
FIG. 10–3 One of Zoe's revised stories

BEND III ♦ Becoming More Powerful at Realistic Fiction: Studying the Genre and Studying Ourselves as Writers

Session 13 – Fiction Writers Include Chapters: Writing a Beginning, Middle, and End
Narrative Writing Checklist, Grades 1 and 2

Session 15 – Writers Use Their Superpowers to Work with Greater Independence
FIG. 15–1 Maeve's story

BEND IV ♦ Getting Ready to Publish Our Second Series

Session 20 – A Celebration of Series Writers: The Grand Finale!
FIG. 20–1 One of Annabel's fiction stories
FIG. 20–2 One of Alejandra's fiction stories
FIG. 20–3 One of Nandika's final fiction stories
FIG. 20–4 One of Syanna's final fiction stories
FIG. 20–5 One of Izzy's final fiction stories