Narrative writing.presentation.englishppt

narrative writing

1. Narrative writing
A story with a conflict and a
resolution

2. Seven Tips
Write on one experience with a conflict
•Ask the 5 W how questions:
Who( characters)
What happened (plot)
Where (setting)
How (plot progression and details)
•Use lots of dialogue

3. Tips continued
•Use sensory details
•Make sure you have a climax
•Make sure there is a resolution to the
story

4. Step One
•Choose a memory, and bring it to life by
recalling the details
•Imagine the story in your mind
•Organize the plot line and main events on
an outline

5. Step Two
•What did you hear, see, feel and
experience and can write about?
•Add your details to your outline

6. Five Ways to start writing the
narrative
•Start with a description
•Start with a question
•Start with an anecdote
•Start with a quotation
•Start with dialogue

7. Things to think about while you are
writing
•Stories can make you laugh and can make you
cry
•The essential elements are to have three key
events
•Select good narrative details that add to the
story
•Use description in your narrative writing
•Use dialogue for a purpose
•Establish a point of view ( who is telling the
story?)

8. Ideas to write on:
•A time when you were a child and learned a
lesson in life
•Patience
•Self control
•Lack of anger
•Sharing
•Forgiving
•Not lying about something
•Not taking someone else’s things

9. Ideas
•A time when you were afraid and it worked
out
•A time when you made a big mistake and
how it worked out
•A time when life was tough and yet in time
you got over it

10. Next Step
•Start with writing your lead in your
introduction
•Next, add the who, what, when where into
your essay.
•Define in a few sentences where this story
is happening and who is in it.
•Draw us into the story

11. What are leads?
•In your introduction you can start with a
lead such as dialogue, feelings,
experiences, backflashes, anecdotes,
questions, or statements

12. While you are writing
•Add your details
•Details are:
•Anecdotes, incidents, similes, metaphors,
comparisons, adjectives, adverbs,
experiences, examples, dialogue, feelings,
etc.

13. Paragraphs 2,3,4
•These paragraphs are called the body
paragraphs.
•Each paragraph is building the story to a
climax
•The climax should be starting in paragraph
3, but really comes to fruition in paragraph
four.
•The climax is the highest and most
exciting point in the story.

14. Paragraph 5
•This is the resolution to the story. Your
story needs to be resolved in paragraph 5,
and a conclusion needs to happen. Add
clincher sentences and make the ending
believable. Don’t always wake up from a
dream!