Narrative Text

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Narrative Text

• Whats Your Story

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Story Narrative

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Narratives

• Fiction
• Nonfiction

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What makes a narrative a narrative

• Sequence or order
• Characters or people
• Conflict or problem
• Resolution or solution

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Whats narrative nonfiction

• Explaining how to do something in steps.
• Describing an event as it happenedlike a story.
• Using story elementsliterary elements to tell a
  news story.

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Sequence or Order

• Narratives tend to follow a chronological
  patternfrom beginning to end.
• Narratives however do not tell everything.

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Be Selective

• Dont tell everything.
• Dont 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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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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Invitation to Write

• Think about conflicts youve had getting into
  trouble arguing fighting problems etc.
• Make a list.

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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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