What the film covers
In one student’s story a car leaves the road between two paragraphs: it isn’t written anywhere, it happens in the gap. Paragraphing is worth up to two marks, and the film shows its three scores as three gaps, in the markers’ own words: random, appropriate and deliberate.
All ten criteria, with teaching moves, in how to teach narrative writingStories from the film
From the guide’s sample scripts, with the score each was given for Paragraphing.
- Living dead 0 out of 2
- The shade whispered 1 out of 2
- His eyes widened 2 out of 2


A handout to print
Stories from the film, and the scale for this criterion. It comes with free access.
