NARRATIVE WRITING: INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOK

To weave a compelling story is indeed an Art in its own kind and with the structured and scaffolded lessons this unit offers, your students will be able to do just that. Lessons in the first part of this unit focus on identifying the structure and features of a narrative. Mini lessons target use of transitions, description, figurative language, and dialogue to control pacing, in addition to effective ways to begin and conclude narratives. The provided narrative writing sample is editable giving you the flexibility to customise this unit to suit your students’ learning needs.

Narrative Writing Part I
IDENTIFYING THE STRUCTURE AND FEATURES OF A NARRATIVE
Lessons revolve around the sample personal narrative, ‘The Storm’. Students will identify the elements of a plot, use of figurative language, transitions, dialogue, and opening, body, and concluding paragraphs. They de-structure the parts of a narrative and note use of interesting vocabulary. An assessment sheet is also provided to assess comprehension. The following mini lessons are included:

USING TRANSITION WORDS AND PHRASES TO MANAGE SEQUENCE OF EVENTS
DESCRIPTION AND FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE TO SLOW DOWN PACE OF STORY
DIALOGUE IN WRITING
ANALYSE A NARRATIVE PROMPT – mini booklet
ORGANISE A NARRATIVE SHORT STORY
DRAFTING AN INTRODUCTION

NARRATIVE WRITING PART II
Students use all the skills acquired in Part I of this Narrative Writing unit to respond to On – Demand Narrative Writing Prompts that require students to write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well‐chosen details and well-structured event sequences. Students have the choice of responding to 7 prompts with visuals. They use the given picture stimulus and graphic organisers to plan their writing and write their first draft. They will be familiar with this, having had ample practice in Narrative Writing Part I of this unit.

ALSO INCLUDED
* Writing Tools: Colour posters of the VCOP (Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers, Punctuation) gang to enable students to write creatively and edit their draft.
* self-editing checklist * peer-editing checklist
* Teacher Marking Rubric
* Suggested lesson overview and procedure for each writing activity included.
* Table of Contents for easier navigation.