Writing Imaginative Narratives

Learning Objective: Use a tree map to help us understand the organizational structure of animaginative narrative

Standard 1.1: Select a focus, an organizational structure, point of view based upon purpose, audience, length, and format requirements

Vocabulary

• Narrative- text that tells a story• Organizational structure- how a narrative is put• Together• Characters: the main people or animals of a story• Setting: where the story takes place• Plot: the events of the story• The problem/situation: gives the purpose of the

story• Solution: the answer to the problem

Storytelling• Share with your partner a story that explains

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Storytelling

• Characters and setting?

• Problem?

• Events to solve the problem?

• Solution?

The 3 Little Pigs

The Importance of Understanding the structural organization of imaginative

narrativesTo become better writer you have to

understand to different styles of writing. In a few months you will be taking the writing

performance , so you will need to know how to organize your writing

Steps for organizing an imaginative narrative

• Step 1: Read the prompt• Step 2: Create a tree map• Step 3: Determine the characters and setting• Step 4: Identify the problem or situation• Step 5: Identify three attempts to solve the problem that fail• Step 6: Identify an attempt to solve the problem that works

One day a giant has interrupts your classroom

Closure

• What is the organizational structure of a narrative?

• What should you use to organize your thoughts?