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Narrative Text Structure - PowerPoint
A 20-slide editable PowerPoint template to use when teaching your students about the text structure and language features of narrative texts.
This teaching presentation has been designed to teach your students about the text structure and language features of narrative writing. It addresses the following content:
- an overview of the purpose and types of narrative texts
- an explanation of narrative text structure, with annotated examples
- an explanation of descriptive language features, with annotated examples
- review slides with links to worksheets for students to apply what they have learned.
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Common Core Curriculum alignment
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.5
Describe the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in a text or part of a text.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.3
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.3
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.3
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.3
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.

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Design refresh of PowerPoint template.
Change by Stephanie (Teach Starter) Nov 13th, 2018
Missed word 'be' added to slide 5.
Fix by Stephanie (Teach Starter) Jan 17th, 2017
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