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Write Your Own Movie Script – Narrative Writing Project
Lights, camera… creative writing!
Your students probably love movies...but imagine asking them to write their own! In this engaging writing unit, students will work to create a movie script, practicing multiple narrative writing standards at once!
This engaging writing activity guides students through the process of creating their very own movie script—from brainstorming characters and setting to writing dialogue and planning scenes. Perfect for upper elementary students who need a fresh, exciting way to practice narrative writing skills.
Skills Covered:
- Narrative structure (beginning, middle, end)
- Dialogue and character voice
- Story pacing and scene building
- Planning and revision
- Creative thinking and problem-solving
Students Will:
- Draft their scripts (sample scripts are included in student workbooks for their reference)
- Revise their script, focusing on strengthening mechanics
- Conference with you about their writing.
- Peer-edit a friend's script with the same rubric you will use to grade
- Publish their scripts.
- Present to the class (if you choose
Perfect For:
Narrative writing units
Writing centers
Early finisher projects
Test prep break activities
End-of-year fun writing challenges
Let your students be the star of their own writing journey—with a project that feels more like fun than work.
Grab the Write Your Own Movie Script Project today and roll out the red carpet for creativity!
WHAT’S INCLUDED:
Teacher Guide (PRINTABLE ONLY) - An 8-page guide to save you time and make prep quick and easy. This guide includes:
- Mini-Lessons for teaching different steps of the project
- Suggested Pacing Guide with Aligned Standards
- Rubric + Speaking and Listening Checklist for grading final essays and presentations
Student Workbook (DIGITAL AND PRINTABLE) - A 21-page guide with detailed instructions to help your students complete each step of this writing unit successfully. The format of this guide makes differentiation easy. Use it as a supplement to your verbal instructions as you provide scaffolding, or let your more advanced students work through each step of the unit independently. The student workbook includes:
- A timeline to fill in due dates of different parts of the project. (A cover without a timeline is also included in case you don't want it.)
- Planning pages for character, setting, plot, problem and solution
- Drafting pages
- A Revise and Confer page with a revision checklist, plus a reflection section for what they want to conference with their teacher (you!) about.
- Sample script to give students an example of what a script looks like.
- Editing checklist page
- Rubric for peer editing
- Publishing to-do list
- Publishing pages (3 page options-two with illustration spaces, and one with only writing lines)
- Google version of the project includes a digital rubric for teacher grading, as well as digital sticky notes.
HOW WILL THIS HELP MY STUDENTS GROW?
The guidance the student workbook offers fosters student independence while also giving students a very clear roadmap to follow to get to the end of their scripts. Simple tools like to-do lists and checklists give reluctant or developing writers an easy way to keep their writing on track.
Research supports a writing workshop model, so students can work at their own pace and develop their writing at their own level. This project fits perfectly into a workshop model. Students can work at their own pace, giving you the opportunity to dig deeper with each student in the areas that are most challenging for them...mechanics, organization, voice, and more!
Who created this product?
Stephanie Sutherland has served as a classroom teacher for seven years in Tennessee public schools, with one year as an instructional coach. She has her BA in child psychology, and her Masters in Elementary Teaching. She enjoys creating resources for lessons that she has done in her own classroom in an attempt to make other teachers' lives easier.
TERMS OF USE - © Stephanie Sutherland-The Simple Classroom
Purchase of this digital download is for use in one classroom only. This item is also bound by copyright laws. Redistributing, editing, selling, or posting this item (or any part) on the internet are all strictly prohibited without first gaining permission from the author. Violations are subject to the penalties of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Please contact me with any questions!
tennesseeclassroom@gmail.com
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Write Your Own Movie Script – Narrative Writing Project
Lights, camera… creative writing!
Your students probably love movies...but imagine asking them to write their own! In this engaging writing unit, students will work to create a movie script, practicing multiple narrative writing standards at once!
This engaging writing activity guides students through the process of creating their very own movie script—from brainstorming characters and setting to writing dialogue and planning scenes. Perfect for upper elementary students who need a fresh, exciting way to practice narrative writing skills.
Skills Covered:
- Narrative structure (beginning, middle, end)
- Dialogue and character voice
- Story pacing and scene building
- Planning and revision
- Creative thinking and problem-solving
Students Will:
- Draft their scripts (sample scripts are included in student workbooks for their reference)
- Revise their script, focusing on strengthening mechanics
- Conference with you about their writing.
- Peer-edit a friend's script with the same rubric you will use to grade
- Publish their scripts.
- Present to the class (if you choose
Perfect For:
Narrative writing units
Writing centers
Early finisher projects
Test prep break activities
End-of-year fun writing challenges
Let your students be the star of their own writing journey—with a project that feels more like fun than work.
Grab the Write Your Own Movie Script Project today and roll out the red carpet for creativity!
WHAT’S INCLUDED:
Teacher Guide (PRINTABLE ONLY) - An 8-page guide to save you time and make prep quick and easy. This guide includes:
- Mini-Lessons for teaching different steps of the project
- Suggested Pacing Guide with Aligned Standards
- Rubric + Speaking and Listening Checklist for grading final essays and presentations
Student Workbook (DIGITAL AND PRINTABLE) - A 21-page guide with detailed instructions to help your students complete each step of this writing unit successfully. The format of this guide makes differentiation easy. Use it as a supplement to your verbal instructions as you provide scaffolding, or let your more advanced students work through each step of the unit independently. The student workbook includes:
- A timeline to fill in due dates of different parts of the project. (A cover without a timeline is also included in case you don't want it.)
- Planning pages for character, setting, plot, problem and solution
- Drafting pages
- A Revise and Confer page with a revision checklist, plus a reflection section for what they want to conference with their teacher (you!) about.
- Sample script to give students an example of what a script looks like.
- Editing checklist page
- Rubric for peer editing
- Publishing to-do list
- Publishing pages (3 page options-two with illustration spaces, and one with only writing lines)
- Google version of the project includes a digital rubric for teacher grading, as well as digital sticky notes.
HOW WILL THIS HELP MY STUDENTS GROW?
The guidance the student workbook offers fosters student independence while also giving students a very clear roadmap to follow to get to the end of their scripts. Simple tools like to-do lists and checklists give reluctant or developing writers an easy way to keep their writing on track.
Research supports a writing workshop model, so students can work at their own pace and develop their writing at their own level. This project fits perfectly into a workshop model. Students can work at their own pace, giving you the opportunity to dig deeper with each student in the areas that are most challenging for them...mechanics, organization, voice, and more!
Who created this product?
Stephanie Sutherland has served as a classroom teacher for seven years in Tennessee public schools, with one year as an instructional coach. She has her BA in child psychology, and her Masters in Elementary Teaching. She enjoys creating resources for lessons that she has done in her own classroom in an attempt to make other teachers' lives easier.
TERMS OF USE - © Stephanie Sutherland-The Simple Classroom
Purchase of this digital download is for use in one classroom only. This item is also bound by copyright laws. Redistributing, editing, selling, or posting this item (or any part) on the internet are all strictly prohibited without first gaining permission from the author. Violations are subject to the penalties of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Please contact me with any questions!
tennesseeclassroom@gmail.com
