Narrative Writing
33 Ways to Write Stronger Characters
Writing Narratives for the Common Core - W.9-10.3
As part of the Common Core college preparatory standards, this chapter teaches students in grades 9-10 to write narratives for a variety of purposes and audiences.
NEW Writing Rubrics - Revised May 2017
9th-10th Narrative Writing Rubric
11th-12th Narrative Writing Rubric
Writing a Narrative Essay
This video provides instruction on writing a narrative essay with great emphasis put on the adding and polishing the descriptive elements of the essay.
Writing Narratives
This video/PPT (15:51 mins.) provides instruction on writing narrative essays, covering the following topics: description of narrative essay, how to plan a narrative essay, the structure of a narrative essay, and editing an essay. Actually, the first five minutes of the video provides a good, simplistic view of the proceess, the middle section (minutes 5-10 of the video) is devoted to some common writing mistakes and how to edit them, and approximately the last 5 minutes of the video is used to show a sample narrative essay.
***Please excuse the sentence structure error in the introductory paragraph of the sample essay. Despite that, some good instruction is provided.
Writing Hooks for Narrative Essays
This video (7:48) reviews basic approaches for writing hooks in short 5-6 paragraph narrative essays, providing several examples for each method.
Six Traits of Narrative Writing
This PowToon video details six traits of narrative writing with mnemonic to help remember them. As this is designed as a re-cap to prior lessons, If you'd like to see a graphic a bit longer than it is displayed on the screen, please pause the video. This presentation can also be found via this link: http://tinyurl.com/6traitsofnarrative...
Narrative Writing Diamond
The Narrative Diamond can be used as a pre-writing graphic organizer to plan a narrative. This provides a simple, basic story plan on which to build. Student’s can use organizers like this to help them translate their story summary or pre-writing plan to a fully elaborated piece of writing. The Narrative Diamond is needed to guide beginners through the development and the elaboration of a successful, entertaining narrative story.
The diamond is, essentially, a reminder of the shape and proportion that a successful story takes, as well as a reminder of the key skill elements needed for an entertaining piece of writing.
Consider providing students with a copy of the Writing Diamond for their writing folders to help them organize and develop their stories.
Remember – the diamond is not a rigid rule or formulaic pattern – rather, it is a basic guide to help students channel their creativity into what others recognize as story. In time, the diamond will disappear into the writing, providing shape and structure for their creative ideas.
Narrative Writing Techniques (Elaborative Detail, Suspense, Main Event, Ending) - Empowering Writers
Although some of the materials/examples may be below grade level, the ideas are sound and could be used to develop grade-level materials.
CC-aligned Narrative Writing Task with Detailed Description
Narrative Techniques (Beginning, Showing/Telling, Elaborative Detail) - Empowering Writers
Although some of the materials/examples may be below grade level, the ideas are sound and could be used to develop grade-level materials.