Title: Assignment 7: First Draft of Children's Story
Course: Coming Soon: Writing a Children's Book

Children's Story: First Draft

Once you've listened to the responses to your interview questions, begin planning your children's story. Here are some things to keep in mind as you write:

- The final product will be presented on VoiceThread and should be 10-12 slides long, with each slide having 3-4 sentences on it. The font size should be at least 18-20 point. Type your first draft on a Word document, but leave spaces to show where the page breaks will be.

- Try to incorporate several of your elementary student's interests into the story. (See the sample interview and story as an example of this.)

- Use at least 4 different types of figurative language and/or sound techniques in your story.

- simile
- metaphor
- personification
- hyperbole
- alliteration
- assonance
- onomatopoeia

- Keep the vocabulary and sentence structure simple and lively.

- Since you will not know everything about your elementary student, try to avoid the following:

- "sad" topics (disease, war, natural disasters, etc.)
- holidays
- questionable words (absolutely no obscenities!)
- bad behavior (such as a child disobeying parents or elders)
- also be careful about naming any "bad guys" in your story. You might unintentionally choose a name of someone that the child knows.

Once you have completed your rough draft, upload the Word document to this assignment form.

1. Under "Upload a file," click on the "Browse" button and browse to find your saved file.
2. Click on "Upload this file."
3. Wait for my feedback before continuing on to the next assignment.

Rubric

Appropriate topic, incorporates interests of elementary student (from interview) | 15
Uses at least 4 different types of writing techniques | 15
Appropriate vocabulary and sentence structure; "readable" for elementary student | 10
Grammar/spelling/punctuation | 10
Total | 50