RDG 533 - Teaching Narrative Writing with Children’s Literature

Credits: 3
Note *Throughout the semester, candidates apply craft techniques to personal writing and implement developmentally appropriate practices in a school setting.
This course examines effective techniques for composing compelling personal and fictional narratives with vivid characters, plots, and settings. Building on the reading-writing connection, candidates apply a writer’s lens to analyze elements of craft, recursive writing processes, and workshop structures. Through author studies, candidates identify strong mentor texts, develop literature-based craft lessons, and design instructional techniques to support writing apprenticeships.