A fictional narrative is a made up story.

Over the next week we will be “immersing” ourselves in fictional narratives to investigate the key elements of a well written narrative.

We will look at:

• The structure of a fictional narrative
• Developing ideas to form a quality narrative
• Character development

Narratives can be structured in different ways, but we identified the typical organisation of a fictional narrative:

• Beginning (introduce the main character/s, describe the setting)
• Middle – part one (complication)
• Middle – part two (series of events that occur as a result of the complication)
• Ending (complication is resolved).

We’ll be using lots of different picture books to analyse the narrative story – looking at the setting, characters and how the story develops.

We’ll be using some YouTube clips from the Storyline online  site to look at different stories and also to help us our reading aloud skills. We’re having a bug focus on reading with expression and these YouTube clips are a great example of this skill.

Stay tuned for our recorded readings of narrative stories and our written narratives in the coming weeks.

Can you think of any narrative story titles that we could use?