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Narrative Writing

Adding Details to Your Writing

What is Narrative Writing?

• “So, what happened?” When someone asks you that, what do you say? You respond by telling a story- when it happened, where it happened, how and why it happened. This is what we call narration.
• Narrative writing tells a story about an event that happened.

What should a good narrative story include?

• Good narrative stories use details to describe all the important elements of an event (Who, what, when, where, and why.)
• The story should be focused and stick to one main idea.
• Unimportant details should be left out of the story.
• Narrative stories should be organized in a logical way (Beginning, Middle, and End)
• Transitions should be used to move from part of the story to the next.
• The story should make a point or lead to a conclusion.

5-sentence Narrative Stories

• So far this year we have been working on writing five sentence narrative stories.
• Here is how these stories were organized:

Sentence 1- Topic Sentence introducing the main idea

Sentence 2- Beginning

Sentence 3- Middle

Sentence 4 -End

Sentence 5- Concluding Sentence

• Transition words like first, next, and last help the story flow smoothly from beginning, to middle, to end.

Let’s look at an example

My Bicycle Accident

When I was in third grade I got hurt in a bicycle accident. My brother and I were riding our bikes down the steep hill at the end of our street. I was going so fast that I hit a bump in the road and flipped over my handlebars. I hit my head hard on the pavement and had to be taken to the hospital by my mother. I am lucky that only fractured my skull and got a concussion that day, it could have been much worse.

Here are all the parts:

Topic Sentence

Concluding Sentence

So, how does my story measure up?

• This narrative story tells about a true event that happened in my life.
• It uses details to describe all the important elements of my event:
• Who- my brother and myself
• What- had a bike accident
• When- in third grade
• Where- on the hill at the end of my street
• Why- I was going very fast and hit a bump
• The story is focused and sticks to one main idea.
• Main idea: A time when I was hurt in a bike accident.
• The story ends by making a point. This is called a conclusion.
• Conclusion: Even though I got hurt, I feel lucky to be alive because things could have been much worse.

How can I make my story better?

• Even though my story has all the major parts a narrative story needs to have, it could be even better.
• Adding more details and descriptions would make my story more interesting for my audience.

Let’s Give it a Try!

When I was in third grade I got hurt in a bicycle accident. My brother and I were riding our bikes down the steep hill at the end of our street. We were racing as fast as we could down the hill, trying to see who could get to the bottom first. I was going so fast that I hit a bump in the road and flipped over my handlebars. I hit my head hard on the pavement and had to be taken to the hospital by my mother. I am lucky that only fractured my skull and got a concussion that day, it could have been much worse.

Add a new detail sentence

When I was in third grade I got hurt in a bicycle accident. My brother and I were riding our bikes down the steep hill at the end of our street. We were racing as fast as we could down the hill, trying to see who could get to the bottom first. I was going so fast that I hit a bump in the road and flipped over my handlebars. Before I knew it I was sailing through the air, headfirst, without a helmet on. I hit my head hard on the pavement and had to be taken to the hospital by my mother. I am lucky that only fractured my skull and got a concussion that day, it could have been much worse.

When I was in third grade I got hurt in a bicycle accident. My brother and I were riding our bikes down the steep hill at the end of our street. We were racing as fast as we could down the hill, trying to see who could get to the bottom first. I was going so fast that I hit a bump in the road and flipped over my handlebars. Before I knew it I was sailing through the air, headfirst, without a helmet on. I hit my head hard on the pavement and had to be taken to the hospital by my mother. She raced me to the Emergency Room where the doctors took x-rays of my head and body. I am lucky that only fractured my skull and got a concussion that day, it could have been much worse.

NARRATIVE ESSAY

Jan 02, 2020

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NARRATIVE ESSAY. A narrative essay is simply a personal story You are the narrator of your own story. Just choose one moment of your life that you want to share with your readers and write about it. GENERAL GUIDE. Write in first person: Use words such as I, my, mine, me.

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NARRATIVE ESSAY • A narrative essay is simply a personal story • You are the narrator of your own story. • Just choose one moment of your life that you want to share with your readers and write about it.

GENERAL GUIDE • Write in first person: Use words such as I, my, mine, me. “ I never felt that scared than the day I lost my little sister in a crowded mall” With this opening statement the reader knows they are about to learn the details of that day. • Moments of the child’s disappearance • Your terrified scramble to find her • Your reunion at the security offices

Transport the readers into the time and spaces of the world portrayed by the writer. Through reflecting upon an event, and through recreating the experience for other readers, writing a narrative essay can enable you to develop new, subtle, and rewarding perspectives. W H Y ?

BASIC QUALITIES • Recreates an experience through time • Can be based on one of your own experience either past or present • Can be about someone’s else experience • Communicates a main idea or a lesson learned

F I R S T S T E P S • Identify the experience you want to write about • Think about why the experience is significant • Draft your recollections about the details of the experience • Create an outline of the basic parts of your narrative

WRITING ABOUT THE EXPERIENCE • Using your outline, describe each part of your narrative • Rather than telling the readers what happened, use vivid details and descriptions to recreate the experience. • Think like your readers: The information you present is the only one your readers have about the experience. • Keep in mind that all of the small and seemingly unimportant details known to you are not necessarily known by your readers.

SIGNIFICANCE • Use the first paragraph to introduce the experience and the significance • Begin your essay jumping directly into the narrative and then ending the essay with a paragraph communicating the significance.

P R O M P T S

TIME TO CHECK • Does this essay effectively recreates the experience. • Ask for other’s opinion • Identify where more details and description is needed • Remove information that distracts from the focus idea of the writing. • Revise the order in which the story is told.

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