Discuss how authors and illustrators make stories exciting, moving and absorbing and hold readers’ interest by using various techniques
A prompt for students to use when orally discussing books.
A 10 slide editable PowerPoint template of story starters to use in narrative writing.
A worksheet to help students reflect on their thoughts after reading a chapter in a class novel.
A worksheet allows students to examine how events in a novel can change the main character's thinking.
A worksheet for students to explore how decision making in a story changes the course of the plot.
A worksheet which encourages students to write an alternate ending to a shared class story.
A worksheet which encourages students to create a new book cover for a shared class novel.
A worksheet which helps students explore important scenes from a class novel.
A worksheet to assist students in making predictions before reading a novel.
3 worksheets to help students analyse the points of view of opposing characters in a literary text.
3 worksheets to assist with analysing characters in a class novel.
A set of 14 literature study task cards for upper primary students to use when analysing children's literature.
Students use a template to help them plan stories with alternative pathways for their friends to read.
Students use a template to help them write stories with alternative pathways for their friends to read.
A 23 slide editable PowerPoint template to use when teaching your students about the features of narrative texts.
A set of 30 literature tasks to assist your students with examining and responding to literature.
A 33 slide editable PowerPoint template of generic literature tasks.
A set of 16 posters ready for your students to add synonyms to.
A set of 16 posters about developing and describing characters when writing stories.
A narrative writing teaching pack containing 9 worksheets and posters.
A poster to remind your students to add detail and description to their writing to bring their characters to life.
A set of two posters explaining direct and indirect characterisation.
A comprehensive resource pack to use with your class when studying a class novel.
This English unit addresses the narrative text type, specifically how to plan and write an engaging story.
A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate exciting, attention-grabbing methods of starting a story.
A 60 minute lesson in which students will develop a plot for a narrative which includes a setting, characters and a problem to be solved.