Narrative Writing Unit of Work

A comprehensive unit of work on narrative writing that focusses on key sections using the idea of ‘B.I.G.C.A.R’.
Beginning
Introduce character
Gather pace
Crisis
Adjustment
Resolution

This unit makes links to the new AQA English GCSE criteria, but it can be very easily adapted to suit KS3 Assessment criteria. It includes a detailed PowerPoint and additional resources such as mini extracts from ‘Of Mice and Men’, ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘The Golden Compass’ to identify how different characters are introduced in Literature. There is also an extract from H.G Wells ‘The Red Room’, looking at how tension is created through techniques and sentence structures to illustrate how writers gather pace. Media clips are also incorporated to enable pupils to recognise the important aspect of minute detail when writing and to provide a stimulus for pupils.

This unit aims to develop a range of writing skills (techniques, vocabulary, sentence variation etc) and most of all, ensures that pupils have a secure understanding of narrative structure.

Each lesson is clearly presented and covers key aspects of narrative structure with examples from different texts for pupils to annotate and model paragraphs within the PowerPoint to support pupils.