This is a slideshow that can be used to teach children how to write narratives. It goes though the structure of a narrative and has some ideas for publishing at the end.
1. The Purpose is
to entertain,
motivate or
teach
How to write Outstanding
Narratives
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2. Write in second person
• You
Write in third person
• She
• Her
• He
• His
•Their
•Him
•Them
•They
•It
3. ate
• Past
eat
• Present
Was
• Past
is
• Present
Yesterday they ate cake at
the birthday party.
She is going to eat her lunch now.
He was in the classroom yesterday.
He is not here now.
Write in the Past
4. • Write a title
• Write an introduction
– Set the scene and
mood
– Introduce characters
– Use second or third
person
– Use past tense
• How the kiwi lost his
wings
• Tanemahuta was
looking very sad
because his children
were dying one by
one.
5. The Problem or Conflict
What was the
problem?
When you
write the
problem make
it interesting!
They were being eaten by
bugs.
Tanemahuta’s children, the
towering Totara and the
kingly Kauri were being
eaten by ravenous, crawling
bugs.
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7. Write a conclusion and or a
resolution here…
Does it have a summary or a
moral?
Tanemahuta punished the birds that would not help
him by giving the Tui two white feathers at his throat
as a mark of cowardice. Pukeko would have to…
… The gallant and brave kiwi was rewarded with the
knowledge, that he would always be remembered as
the most well known and famous bird of them all.
9. Action Verbs express action
Look at your sentence, is a person or
an object doing something. Ask yourself
the question ‘Can you <insert word>?
10. Use Vivid Verbs
Walked Plodded Stomped
Talked gossiped nattered chattered
Listened snooped eavesdropped
Think considered contemplated
Get fished hooked
What are vivid verbs?
They are Power Words!
11. Adjectives: describes objects, people
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/english/spelling_grammar.shtml
14. Have I Yes/No
Written in the past tense?
Written in second and third person?
Written an introduction that sets the scene?
Said ‘What the problem is?
Said ‘what the response was (happens next and after)?
Said what the Action was?
Said what the Outcome was?
Have I used other conjunctions for ‘and’?
Have I used vivid verbs?
Have I used interesting adjectives?