Narrative+Writing

Narrative Writing **
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 * Description: ** Narrative Writing is used by students of all ages to create both fiction and true stories to entertain readers. Narratives have a problem and a solution, as well as a beginning, middle, and end (Tompkins, 2008, p. 195).

Kindergarten - Grade 2: Recognize beginning, middle, end of stories; use this to organize stories; identify characters and settings
 * Lesson Activities:**
 * Make storybooks by drawing pictures of beginning, middle, and end of stories.
 * Make character clusters
 * Draw setting maps/tabletop displays of settings

Grades 3-5: Analyze the ways authors develop characters, settings, and plot in their stories; use these methods in own stories
 * Examine the 4 ways authors develop characters.
 * Make open-minded portraits.
 * Consider how stories would be different if settings were different.
 * Create setting maps.
 * Make plot profiles as they read a novel.
 * Draw story mountains.

Grades 6-8: Identify implicit/explicit themes; identify 4 points of view and their effecti on a story; analyze story structure.
 * Make a theme cluster about a one word theme (ex. friendship).
 * Consider how a story would be different if told from a different point of view.
 * Analyze the story structure of a familiar story.
 * Analyze their own use of story structure.
 * Write an essay explaining how the author developed theme.

**Books and Websites:** __Julie of the Wolves__ by Jean Craighead George __The Witch of Blackbird Pond__ by Elizabeth Speare __Chrysanthemum__ by Kevin Henkes __Tuck Everlasting__ by Natalie Babbit [] []

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