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Use this activity to engage all types of learners, while requiring that they refer to and incorporate details from the text over the course of the activity.
ACTIVITY: Writing Epistolary Fiction
In the Pre-Reading Prompt, you told a true story in a letter or email to someone you know. In this Activity, expand your epistolary skills by writing a short piece of fiction through letters, blog posts, texts, or other documents in the epistolary form.
If you have the opportunity to read your story aloud, choose a partner to represent the second character’s voice or documents.
Teaching Suggestion: Consider sharing excerpts of middle grade or YA epistolary stories such as Beverly Cleary’s Dear Mr. Henshaw or Same Sun Here by Silas House, Neela Vaswani, and Hilary Schenker, along with Archie’s War: A Scrapbook of the First World War by Marcia Williams, or even a choice in the Wimpy Kid Series.
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