Adventures in Fantasy: Lessons and Activities in Narrative and Descriptive Writing, Grades 5-9

Adventures in Fantasy offers an exciting approach to teaching narrative and descriptive writing that stimulates a students creativity and imagination. Filled with mini-lessons reading projects and hands-on writing activities the book shows teachers step-by-step how to introduce students to the magic of creating a complete story in the fantasy/adventure genre. Before fleshing out their stories however students are asked to construct actual maps of their fantasyland and then to write a travelogue describing the setting in vivid detail. This initial fantasizing encourages students to be wildly inventive in creating the drama ogres villains heroes and heroines featured in their story and on the way they learn about the mythic journey.