Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Narr. Text Structure: Picture the Character
A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete a graphic organizer to illustrate and write characteristics of one of the characters. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Check a Trait
A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete a graphic organizer to describe the characters in the story. Materials are included. [PDF]
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Character Connections
A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete graphic organizers to describe a character or compare and contrast two characters from the story. Materials are included. [PDF]
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Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Compare a Character [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete graphic organizers to compare and contrast two characters from the story. Materials are included.[PDF]
Other
Jefferson County Schools: Print a Prompt
Check out this resourceful site featuring "Print a prompt." Students can choose from several different titles and prompts and they are provided with a printed copy.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Taking Apart and Reconstructing Stories
This lesson is designed as a project-based unit plan that will take students through the narrative process from deconstruction to construction. After initial discussion, students will use the Interactive Story Map feature at Read Write...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: The Joy Luck Club: Character Development
Students respond to a prompt by writing about how the development of a character can affect the narrative.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: The Narrative Essay
Need help picking out the elements of a narrative? Check this site out from Capital Community College, and you'll see some background information, a sample essay, and directed questions to ask yourself about a text. W.9-10.3 Narrative,...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Narrative Grading Rubric [Pdf]
This site provides four versions of rubrics for narrative writing. The rubrics provide the following assessment categories: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, fluency, conventions. A 6-point rubric, a 5-point rubric, a 4-point...
Other
Gallaudet University: English Works: Guide to Different Types of Essays
English Works site has suggestions on how to write an essay to convey helpful information. This site offers examples of eight different types of essays and graphic organizers.
Other
Sanchezclass.com: Four Types of Writing
Definitions of the four types of writing: narrative, expository, persuasive, and descriptive.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Source: Pocahontas: One Foot in Two Worlds
What is the true story of Pocahontas? Young scholars draw upon information from photographs, paintings, cartoons, and architectural drawings in order to analyze and interpret historical data.
Quia
Quia: Narrative Structure Elements
This reading resource provides vocabulary words with definitions. All words are related to the elements of narratives. A link to associated review activities is included.
C-SPAN
C Span American Writers: Narrative of Sojourner Truth
A brief summary of The Narrative of Sojourner Truth. Also includes an on-line text of the work as well as links to other informational websites.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Story Maps
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides six story-map graphic organizers.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Stories and Communication: Lesson 2
At the end of this tutorial, the learner will understand that telling stories can be a very effective means of communicating complex messages. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Stories and Communication."
Fun Trivia
Fun Trivia: The Four Types of Writing Trivia Quiz
A fifteen-question quiz in which the reader identifies a type of writing for each situation: argumentation, exposition, narrative, or description. Correct answers are displayed once answers are submitted.
TES Global
Blendspace: Digital Storytelling
Links to eight different online storytelling websites available for free student use followed by an assessment.
TES Global
Blendspace: Poetry
A learning module that includes twenty-two links to videos, pictures, weblinks, charts, and activities about different types of poetry including couplet, cinquain, acrostic, diamante, limerick, free verse, lyric, narrative, concrete, and...
Other
Bob's Byway: Glossary of Poetic Terms
Calling itself "unique," Bob's is easy to use, with cross-links throughout, phonetic pronunciation guides when necessary, and many examples and quotations. Click on the letter and scroll for the word.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Writing Review
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart students will interactively review the following areas of writing: parts of a paragraph; unity, coherence, and elaboration; and the 4 types of writing.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Can You Tell?
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart helps students to determine the difference between narrative and expository writing.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Expository vs Narrative Intros
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart gives examples of expository and narrative introductions. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.2.a
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Is It Narrative or Is It Expository?
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart gives students the opportunity to practice with the differences between narrative and expository prompts.