What is Narrative Writing?

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What is Narrative Writing?
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What Is a Short Story?

• A short story is a brief, made-up narrative an
  account of a sequence of events.
• Most short stories have
• 1. One or more characters
• 2. A conflict or problem that keeps the reader
  asking, What will happen next?
• 3. A beginning that grabs the readers interest
  and introduces the characters, setting, and
  conflict.
• 4. A middle in which the story reaches a climax-
  its turning point.
• 5. An ending in which the conflict is resolved
  and loose ends are tied up.

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Types of Short Stories

• 1. Realistic stories take you on a walk through
  familiar neighborhoods with people much like
  those you know.
• 2. Fantasy and science-fiction stories might
  whisk you away to strange, new planets or
  mysterious ancient kingdoms.
• 3. Adventure stories tumble you into a world of
  brave heroes fighting dangerous enemies.

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Prewriting

• A. Choosing Your Topic For some writers,
  telling a story is easy- the hard part is coming
  up with a good topic.
• B. Developing Narrative Elements Identify the
  Conflict
• 1. Conflict is a struggle between two opposing
  forces.
• 2. External Conflict occurs when a character is
  struggling against an outside forces such as
  another character or a natural event.
• 3. Internal Conflict takes place within a
  character, as when the character struggles to
  make a tough decision or to overcome fear.

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• C. Considering Your Audience and Purpose
• 1. Audience Who your readers are
• A. Young Children, use simpler words than if you
  were writing a story for older readers.
• B. People who dont go to your school, remember
  that if you mention something particular to your
  school, such as a certain teacher, you must
  explain who or what you are talking about.
• 2. Purpose What you want to do for them
• A. Make readers laugh, select funny details to
  include
• B. give readers goosebumps, include a couple of
  surprises.
• C. Present a theme (a question or message
  about,) use events that illustrate the question
  or message.

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• D. Gathering Details
• Gather details to include in your story.
• List ideas about your story topic.
• Put in chronological order

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Drafting

• A. Shaping Your Writing Plot is the arrangement
  of events in the story.
• 1. The exposition introduces the characters and
  their situation, including the central conflict.
• 2. This conflict develops and intensifies during
  the rising action, which leads to the climax.
• 3. The climax, or turning point of the story,
  might take form of an argument or moment of
  decision.
• 4. In the storys falling action, events start
  winding down, leading to the resolution.
• 5. At the resolution, the conflict is resolved
  in some way and loose ends are tied up.

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• Show a Plot Diagram Page 82

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• B. Providing Elaboration
• As you draft your story, make your characters and
  setting come alive by including sensory
  details-language that describes how things look,
  sound, feel, taste, and smell.

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Revising

• A. Revising Your Overall Structure
• Create Logical Connections Between Events
• B. Revising Your Paragraphs
• 1. Show, Dont Tell (Tell how they walk
  (quickly) Tell how their voice sounds
  (trembling))
• 2. Add Dialogue
• A. A characters answer or response to another
  character.
• B. Information one character gives another
• C. An order, command, or instruction given by a
  character.
• D. A question a character asks.
• E. Something a character says to express
  feelings.

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• C. Revising Your Sentences
• Provide Transitions Words that show the
  connection between ideas.
• D. Revising Your Word Choice
• Use vivid verbs chuckled, snorted, blossomed
  into, and sounded
• E. Peer Review
• 1. Make notes on the parts they like
• 2. Make notes on parts that need more details

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Editing and Proofreading

• Proofread your story carefully to catch errors in
  spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and
  grammar.
• Pay particular attention to proofreading your
  storys dialogue-speech that youve quoted
  exactly. Make sure youve punctuated it
  correctly. (Page 89 Rules)

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Publishing and Presenting

• 1. To Be Graded
• 2. To Share
• 3. Memory Folder

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• Narrative Short Story Pages 72-90