Narrative Writing
Planning for success
WALT:
Year 3:
Create imaginative texts based on characters, settings and events from students’ own and other cultures using visual features, for example perspective, distance and angle (ACELT1601)
Year 4:
Create literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settings (ACELT1794)
WILF:
Use the story mountain to plan the elements of your story
Year 3:
Create imaginative texts based on characters, settings and events from students’ own and other cultures using visual features, for example perspective, distance and angle (ACELT1601)
Year 4:
Create literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settings (ACELT1794)
WILF:
Use the story mountain to plan the elements of your story
Your task:
With your partner fill in a story graph for Mike's New Car:
1: Sizzling start and exciting ending
2: Backfill
3: Pebble
4: Rock
5: Boulder
6: Character wrap up
With your partner fill in a story graph for Mike's New Car:
1: Sizzling start and exciting ending
2: Backfill
3: Pebble
4: Rock
5: Boulder
6: Character wrap up
Sharing our Story Graphs with another partnership.
Sizzling Starts
WALT:
Year 3:
Create imaginative texts based on characters, settings and events from students’ own and other cultures using visual features, for example perspective, distance and angle (ACELT1601)
Year 4:
Create literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settings (ACELT1794)
WILF:
All of us will begin our stories with action, dialogue or a moment of change.
Most of us will begin all paragraphs with action, dialogue or a moment of change.
Some of us will begin to vary the type of sizzling start for each paragraph.
Year 3:
Create imaginative texts based on characters, settings and events from students’ own and other cultures using visual features, for example perspective, distance and angle (ACELT1601)
Year 4:
Create literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settings (ACELT1794)
WILF:
All of us will begin our stories with action, dialogue or a moment of change.
Most of us will begin all paragraphs with action, dialogue or a moment of change.
Some of us will begin to vary the type of sizzling start for each paragraph.
WAGOLL:
Before:
Once there was a Tooth Fairy with a bad temper. She always went out and …
After:
‘Whaaaaat… Is that the fairy?’ the little kid in the bed muttered.
‘No!’ said the Tooth Fairy. ‘Be quiet. And keep your eyes shut or you’ll get no money for your tooth.’ It was her 104th visit for the night and her wings hurt and she was definitely over eager little kids.
Before:
Once there was a Tooth Fairy with a bad temper. She always went out and …
After:
‘Whaaaaat… Is that the fairy?’ the little kid in the bed muttered.
‘No!’ said the Tooth Fairy. ‘Be quiet. And keep your eyes shut or you’ll get no money for your tooth.’ It was her 104th visit for the night and her wings hurt and she was definitely over eager little kids.
5 Minute Sizzling Starts
I will read out a topic and give you 1 minute to write a Sizzling Start.
As soon as the minute is up, I will read out another topic and start the next minute.
After 5 minutes, you should have 5 different Sizzling Starts.
Share your favourite sizzling start with your learning team.
I will read out a topic and give you 1 minute to write a Sizzling Start.
As soon as the minute is up, I will read out another topic and start the next minute.
After 5 minutes, you should have 5 different Sizzling Starts.
Share your favourite sizzling start with your learning team.
Starting with Action
WAGOLL
My legs strained as they pounded on the dirt track. I pumped my hands harder, my breathing coming out in loud gasps. My toe caught on the uneven surface, I flung my hands in front of me to try and break my fall.
Brainstorm:
What types of action could start a story?
WAGOLL
My legs strained as they pounded on the dirt track. I pumped my hands harder, my breathing coming out in loud gasps. My toe caught on the uneven surface, I flung my hands in front of me to try and break my fall.
Brainstorm:
What types of action could start a story?
What action did the Angry Birds movie start with?
Word Wall:
What words could we use to describe the scene?
Word Wall:
What words could we use to describe the scene?
What action did the How to Train Your Dragon movie start with?
Word Wall:
What words could we use to describe the scene?
Starting with Intrigue:
Make the reader curious.
WAGOLL
The beach house was great, but then my cousins arrived with the bacon, the bricks and wearing their usual beanies.
Word Wall:
What words could we use to describe the scene?
Starting with Intrigue:
Make the reader curious.
WAGOLL
The beach house was great, but then my cousins arrived with the bacon, the bricks and wearing their usual beanies.
What intrigue did the Pirates of the Caribbean movie start with?
Word Wall:
What words could we use to describe the scene?
Starting with Dialogue:
Beginning with somebody talking.
WAGOLL
"Are you sure that's a good idea?" Sam inquired as Jack buckled his helmet securely onto his head.
Word Wall:
What words could we use to describe the scene?
Starting with Dialogue:
Beginning with somebody talking.
WAGOLL
"Are you sure that's a good idea?" Sam inquired as Jack buckled his helmet securely onto his head.
Starting with Humour:
Beginning with a amusing event, thought or rhetorical question.
WAGOLL
Ever cheered for your footy team with a pie in one hand and a drink in the other? Don’t. When that final goal happened, I wore both.
Beginning with a amusing event, thought or rhetorical question.
WAGOLL
Ever cheered for your footy team with a pie in one hand and a drink in the other? Don’t. When that final goal happened, I wore both.
Starting with a Moment of Change:
The moment of change.
WAGOLL
All was going well on the hike until the heat wave happened. I was hot and sweaty and dying for a swim. Then I saw the river. And the sign: Warning! Crocodiles.
The moment of change.
WAGOLL
All was going well on the hike until the heat wave happened. I was hot and sweaty and dying for a swim. Then I saw the river. And the sign: Warning! Crocodiles.
What is a sizzling start?
What is one way you can create a sizzling start?
What is one way you can create a sizzling start?
Show Don't Tell
WALT:
Using descriptive language to show your reader what is happening in the story.
WILF:
All will use a at least one show me sentence each paragraph.
Most will use a combination of adjectives and adverbs to create show me paragraphs.
Some will be able to revise and change our work so that most of our sentences are show me sentences.
Using descriptive language to show your reader what is happening in the story.
WILF:
All will use a at least one show me sentence each paragraph.
Most will use a combination of adjectives and adverbs to create show me paragraphs.
Some will be able to revise and change our work so that most of our sentences are show me sentences.
Rule up your A3 paper.
Decided with your partner on your simple sentence.
Write the emotions down the right hand side.
Create your descriptive sentences.
Decided with your partner on your simple sentence.
Write the emotions down the right hand side.
Create your descriptive sentences.
Adjective battle.
I'll give you a noun you have to think of an appropriate adjective as your exit ticket.
I'll give you a noun you have to think of an appropriate adjective as your exit ticket.