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Craft Lessons:Teaching Writing K-8: Grade 3 and 4- Pages 65 - 77

Using a Parallel Story: Page 65

There are many books that have been written that have parallel stories, such as Stellaluna, The Paperboy, and Slower Than the Rest. This lesson is a challenging one and would be appropriate for students with some good basic writing skills. They would also have to have a good sense of another person's perspective. The idea is to develop two main characters or two sets of characters (i.e. 2 families) and write different plots that are related but not the same, and culminating in a joint ending.