NarrativeFairy Tales Adventure Legends

Fables Historical Fiction

Spooky stories Funny storiesMyths Animal stories

Fantasy Science Fiction

Detective

A Narrative needs:

1. Plot

2. Characters

3. Setting

4. Tension: problem and

resolution

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Plot

Setting & Characters

Beginning

Build up

Problem in

the middle

Resolutio

n

Ending

Clues connected to the problem

Tension –what’s going to happen?

The main character will have ‘learnt’ something.

CharactersThink about WHO your characters are. Think about the

details.

1. Name of your character. Make the name fit the

character:

A happy character can have a happy sounding name: Milly/Molly/Toby/Mrs Sweet

A mean character can have a mean sounding name: Zik/Cranola/Mrs Shocker

2. Does your main character have friends?

3. How old is your character?

4. Describe the family of this character?

5. Where does this character live? Where was this

character born? ( It can change.) Tom Money Banks was born in the biggest mansion on the rich side of town. It was strange then, that

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SettingMake sure the setting fits with you story:

Mystery stories:

Old houses with hidden doors

Animals stories:

Zoos forests woods

Other settings – BIG space:

Mountain Beach Lost island Jungle Forest Ocean

Other settings – DETAILED space:

Old twisted tree shabby hut crooked house dark cave cold, dark

lake

Settings can tell us something about the character:

Tom’s room was so messy that even his pet rat could not find its way

back to its cage.

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Tension: problem and

resolutionProblem:

has to be difficult to solve

If the character

chooses this way it will

result in (B)

If the character

chooses this way –

it will result in (A).

Catchy startShort, sharp and dramatic leaves the reader wondering – why? What’s happened? The reader wants more……

Ben could not get up. His lips were bleeding, and his legs were

wobbly.

Jane looked around. She had no idea where she had landed.

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Openers for Beginning Middle and End

Beginning:

Once Upon A Time

One day

Let me tell you about

A long time ago

Yesterday

Jack ( character) had no idea where he

was.

Openers for Beginning Middleand End

Middle:

All of a sudden

Suddenly

Unfortunately

Out of the blue

Without warning…..

They (characters) could not believe it: they

found….

Openers for Beginning Middle and End

Beginning:

Finally

Eventually

Later on

A few days later

Sadly…

Happily…./ Luckily…./ Fortunately…/