English Narrative Writing Lessons - How To Write A Story - Teaching PowerPoint + Activities!

This resource includes everything you need to teach children grades 3 to 6 how to plan and write fantastic narrative stories filled with powerful descriptions and suspense!

The resource is a PowerPoint presentation lesson complete with:

√ Learning objective
√ Success criteria
√ Starter and plenary activities
√ Review of relevant prior learning
√ Teaching input/ information slides
√ Example texts for each part of a story (character description, setting description, suspense-filled climax, resolution, ending)
√ Differentiated feature checklists for each part of a story (3 levels)
√ Whole class/ shared writing activities
√ Independent consolidation tasks (3
√ Speaking, listening, reading & writing tasks
√ Differentiated grammar task - writing in the past tense (3 levels)
√ Writing inspiration

Learning Objective:
LO: To identify the features of and write my own fiction story

Success Criteria:
I can explain the structure of a typical story.
I can write in past tense.
I can use powerful, descriptive language (adjectives, adverbs, fronted adverbials etc.)
I can describe events in chronological order.
I can use figurative language.

Lesson details:

• Starter activity - adjectives bingo game
• Review of revelant prior learning - True or false statements about stories
  -Teaching input/ information slides - story hills, typical structure of a narrative story + differentiated consolidation activity
• Differentiated grammar task - writing in the past tense
• Story openings - setting descriptions (what they are, example of a good setting description, features of setting descriptions, identification of features consolidation task, shared write activity, independent writing activity)
• Story openings - character descriptions (what they are, example of a good character description, features of character descriptions, identification of features consolidation task, shared write activity, independent writing activity)
• Story build ups & Climaxes - using suspense to describe the problem (what suspense is, example of a good suspense-filled climax of a story, structural and language techniques for building suspense, identification of features consolidation task, shared write activity, independent writing activity)
• Story resolution - (what happens here, example of a good resolution, shared write activity, independent writing activity)
• Story ending - (what happens here, example of a good ending, shared write activity, independent writing activity)
• Independent extended writing task (assessment of learning)
• Differentiated feature checklists for stories (3 levels)
• Plenary - synonyms of ‘went’ game

PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the ‘notes’ section of the PowerPoint for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.

This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with some slight adaptations. It could combine very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.