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Overview of Narrative Writing 5th grade. Narrative Writing. Defining Narrative Writing. Narrative Writing : Writing that tells a story or gives an account of something that has happened. The purpose is to recount a story grounded in personal experience or the writer’s imagination. Method :
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Overview of Narrative Writing5th grade Narrative Writing
Defining Narrative Writing • Narrative Writing: Writing that tells a story or gives an account of something that has happened. The purpose is to recount a story grounded in personal experience or the writer’s imagination. • Method: • Uses a setting, characters, circumstances or events, a plot, a point of view, and a sense of resolution to tell a story. • Description of these elements is a key factor. • May employ strategies such as flashback, foreshadowing, dialogue,tension, or suspense.
Focus in Narrative Writing • In narrative writing, the focus of the story may be character development, the plot, a setting and time period, or a deeper theme. • Part of maintaining focus is selecting relevant details that advance the story and leaving out information that may distract the reader from the focus of the story. • The focus is usually implied rather than stated directly. • Maintaining a clear point of view also indicates focus.
Narrative Purpose • The purpose of a narrative is to tell a story and capture the reader’s interest. • Writers may have many purposes for telling a specific story: • Some stories have a meaning that goes deeper than simply the events. • Sometimes the writer has a point to make. • Sometimes the writer wants the reader to understand something personal about himself/herself or to present a lesson about living.
Character Development • Characters can be developed through: • Action • What the characters do, feel, or think • Dialogue • What the characters say • Description • What the characters look like
Types of Language • Interesting Language • Sensory Details: what the characters see, hear, taste, smell, and feel. Writers use details that appeal to the senses to help the reader imagine the events of the story. • Descriptive: conveys an idea, image, or impression. • Figurative: figures of speech or phrases that suggest meanings different from their literal meanings (hyperbole, metaphor, simile, irony). • Simple, Ordinary Language • common words that are correct but not precise.
Narrative Organizational Patterns • Beginning, middle, end • Flashback: end, beginning, middle • Beginning, situation or conflict, climax, resolution of the conflict