1. Narrative Text
What’s Your Story?
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2. Story = Narrative
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3. Narratives
Fiction
Nonfiction
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4. What makes a narrative a narrative?
Sequence or order
Characters or people
Conflict or problem
Resolution or solution
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5. What’s narrative nonfiction?
Explaining how to do something in steps.
Describing an event as it happened—like a story.
Using story elements—literary elements to tell a news story.
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6. Sequence or Order
Narratives tend to follow a chronological pattern—from beginning to end.
Narratives, however, do not tell everything.
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7. Be Selective Don’t tell everything.
Don’t tell about your whole life with your aunt.
Tell about the time she took you to shop for a new pair of shoes for your first day of school.
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8. Invitation to Read: What Does the Writer Focus on?
“I never thought I was a good runner, until the day in gym class when I won the mile race. The course was marked with colorful flags, and the sight of the flags seemed to fire me up…”
(Write Source Gr. 5, page 84)
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9. Invitation to Write
Think about conflicts you’ve had —getting into trouble, arguing, fighting, problems, etc.
Make a list.
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10. Sensory Details
Take your topic and use these sentence stems to think more about your topic.
I see…
I hear…
I smell…
I feel…
I taste…
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