Narrative Writing: Snow Storm

The snow begins to fall as two children walk to school…

A short narrative opening (2 pages) with an emphasis on setting. It could be used for guided or shared reading, as a modelled text or as a prompt for students to continue.

Teaching Points
GRAMMAR: past tenses; fronted adverbials; adjectives and adverbs for descriptive detail; connectives (contrast and time); relative clauses; 3rd person narration
PUNCTUATION: commas around clauses; exclamation and question marks; speech marks; ellipsis
STRUCTURE: paragraphing (opening, build-up, events, resolution); balance of action, dialogue and setting
CONTENT & THEME: setting based opening; character; figurative language (simile, metaphor, personification)