Graphic organizers for narrative writing make teaching narrative writing a breeze. They allow your advanced writers to move ahead at their own pace and provides essential scaffolding for your more reluctant writers. Graphic organizers also help provide essential scaffolding for your more reluctant writers. You can purchase the narrative writing interactive notebook, which includes the entire narrative writing process.
Plan your setting
Think about all the senses when planning the setting of a story. Include the looks, sounds, smells, feeling, taste and time in your narrative graphic organizer.
•Create your Character
When developing your character, students should develop the whole character to help bring the character to life with the reader. Consider, name, what they look like, interests and likes, things the character hates, personal traits and descriptive words to flesh out the character.
•Graphic Organizer for Narrative Writing. Build suspense with a Narrative Story Mountain
Narratives are always much more engaging if they have a dramatic story build up. The story mountain narrative planning graphic organizer will help develop the suspense as you lead into the story.
•Graphic Organizer for Narrative Writing. Beginning, Middle, End Story Planning Page
This is a well worn planning format for narratives. It is basic but essential. some students focus on their complication and forget to bring it all together in their conclusion. Other students jump straight into the problem before they have introduced the characters. This graphic organizer will help ensure the students remember to kick off the narrative and wrap up in the end.
Language & Literary Devices
Before the students kick off their writing, make sure they think about literary devices and transitional words. If literary devices such as hyperbole, similes and metaphors are at front of mind for the students, their stories will be enhanced and a lot more engaging to read. A graphic organiser will help them plan for a more engaging and expressive narrative.
50 Free Prompts for narrative writing
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