What the film covers
Two of the guide’s stories score a four for Sentence structure for opposite reasons: in one every sentence is correct but there is not enough variety; in the other the sentences are varied, with two errors and a missing word. Around them the film sets the guide’s three kinds of sentence and its whole scale, from a run-on at one to a six.
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 Sentence structure.
- the casel 1 out of 6
- The haunted house 4 out of 6
- Tracy 4 out of 6
- The Deep Blue Nothing 6 out of 6


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