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?

Our class has had a very busy term developing our narrative writing skills.

We have had a strong focus on:

• the structure of a narrative story – introduction, problem and resolution
• how to use paragraphs in our writing
• how to write an interesting and entertaining story
• different adjectives to make our stories more interesting
• using words from our Daily 5 reading activities to expand our vocabulary and then use these new words in our writing
• editing our writing – correcting any misspelt words, adding capital letters if needed, adding fullstops, commas or speech marks

We have written a variety of narrative stories and shared them with our classmates.

THEN we chose to look at the different narrative stories we read everyday during our Daily 5 reading tasks.

Each student was given a picture fiction book (they were meant to be hidden in a brown paper bag but some were too big to fit in them) and an activity sheet to complete.

The children needed to find out the title, author, setting, characters and problem/ resolution for each book.

We had a great time reading different narrative stories and working out all the different parts of the stories.

Here are our books

Narrative Books on PhotoPeach

Can you recommend any interesting narrative stories we might enjoy reading?