Suspense Narrative - Ticking Clock

When getting children to write, it is important (if not critical) to give them a high-quality text that the children can:

pull vocabulary from
study setting/character descriptions
get a sense of mood
learn about suspense
etc.

With this text analysis, I have written a 1 page document which sets up a ticking clock element in a suspense narrative. In this document, a girl called Alice is walking along and unknown to her, a dam is about to rupture and the whole place is about to be flooded. Along her walk, she meets a mouse frantically trying to untie a boat. Will Alice and the mouse free the boat before the dam ruptures? Of course, let’s not terrify the children… but as the title Surf’s Up suggests, it’s going to be close!

I used this text analysis for two years when I had choses Alice in Wonderland as a novel to base my English/Topic work on. Each year I read this Text Analysis to the children, I received applause. The children love stories and this provides the children with a solid example of high-quality writing for a purpose.

INCLUDED:

1 print out for the children