This lesson will provide your students with an explicit and effective planning tool when faced with writing a narrative text! Students will think deeply about their SIX senses (what they can see, hear, smell, touch, taste, PLUS, how they feel) in response to a prompt. This lesson will prepare your students with the confidence to generate original ideas and reduce that very familiar, “I don’t know what to write about”!

4 Lessons

Grade: 4-3

Planning Strategies for Narrative

This mini unit will provide your students with some explicit and effective strategies and tools so they feel 100% prepared for writing a narrative. Give them the confidence to dive straight into their writing with frameworks to support them to plan and generate ideas for any narrative prompt. This unit has been designed to be taught in a sequence, however the lessons will also work on their own.

This lesson will provide your students with an explicit and effective planning tool when faced with writing a narrative text! Students will think deeply about their SIX senses (what they can see, hear, smell, touch, taste, PLUS, how they feel) in response to a prompt. This lesson will prepare your students with the confidence to generate original ideas and reduce that very familiar, “I don’t know what to write about”!

4 Lessons

Grade: 4-3

Planning Strategies for Narrative

This mini unit will provide your students with some explicit and effective strategies and tools so they feel 100% prepared for writing a narrative. Give them the confidence to dive straight into their writing with frameworks to support them to plan and generate ideas for any narrative prompt. This unit has been designed to be taught in a sequence, however the lessons will also work on their own.

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Essential Question/s

How can I as a writer plan and generate ideas for a narrative text?

General Capabilities

Literacy

Lessons

4 Lessons

Lesson 1

This lesson will provide your students with an explicit and effective planning tool when faced with writing a narrative text! Students will think deeply about their SIX senses (what they can see, hear, smell, touch, taste, PLUS, how they feel) in response to a prompt. This lesson will prepare your students with the confidence to generate original ideas and reduce that very familiar, “I don’t know what to write about”!

Lesson
Writing

Grades: 4-3

Generating ideas for a narrative using a 6 Senses chart.

Lesson 2

This lesson will provide your students with an explicit and effective planning tool when faced with writing a narrative text! Students will practise responding to a prompt by thinking about the key events they would like to include in their story, using chronological order.This lesson is heavily scaffolded and will help to prepare your students to generate ideas and independently plan for writing.

Lesson
Writing

Transition Timeline

Grades: 4-3

Generating ideas for a narrative using a Transition Timeline.

Lesson 3

This lesson will provide your students with a creative and effective planning tool when faced with writing a narrative text! Students will brainstorm a range of story elements (characters, settings and problems) as they generate ideas in response to a prompt. This lesson is heavily scaffolded and will help to prepare your students to develop their confidence to independently plan for writing. A perfect tool to incorporate into your NAPLAN preparation!

Lesson
Writing

Characters, Settings, Problems (CSP)

Grades: 4-3

Generating ideas for a narrative using possible characters, settings and problems.

Lesson 4

Eliminate the dreaded, “I don’t know what to write about” line with this fantastic planning tool. Students will brainstorm a range of ideas in response to a narrative prompt and then delve further into them with details.This activity will support your students to become more independent in the planning stage of writing, as they generate different ideas and practise selecting their best one to write about. A perfect tool to incorporate into your NAPLAN preparation!

Lesson
Writing

Ideas and Details

Grades: 4-3

Planning for a narrative text by generating different ideas and details.

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