Narrative Anchor Chart
Room 19
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HOLD Your Questions
Find a collection of stories with different themes
Read and reread them to help inspire you
Look for key parts:
Turning Points
Dreaming the Dream
Stepping Inside the Writing
Standard
2. Turning Points!
Standard
Additional Resources
Video of “Goosebumps” First Times/ Realization
Example: Photograph
Video of “Goosebumps” First Time and Realization
3. Strong Emotions! Seed Ideas
Standard
4. Tell the story from inside it
Dream the dream!
Imagine you are inside of your story inside the skin of the main character: write what you see, write what you feel, write what happens!
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5. Share details from the moment
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Revise using storytelling, not summarizing techniques
Use all you know about grammar, spelling, and punctuation
Tell the story from inside it
If you can’t quite remember, make up something that could have been true!
Poetic License
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7. More Dreaming the Dream Practice
Dream the dream!
Imagine you are inside of your story inside the skin of the main character: write what you see, write what you feel, write what happens!
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8. How does the Checklist Work?
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9. Write about your character’s thoughts!
Why did you characters do something?
Show their thinking! That helps the important part of the story go more slowly
Show characters’ reactions. That will help readers know their thoughts!
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Have Meaningful dialogue
Dialogue is people talking.
Anytime a new person talks, have a new paragraph.
I looked at my class.
“Hi class,” said Hatchimal Queen.
Ronaldo, Jr. replied, “Hi.”
“How are you?” replied Puperoni Pizza.
“I want to put ketchup,” said Messi_10, “On my soccer ball.”
Standard--All of them
11. The story arc
Main Character
--Motivations, traits, desires
Problem (This is the draft I made adding more of a problem to my story)
--Trouble or tension, often with some sort of emotional response from a character
Things happen related to problem
--The problem gets bigger or another problem emerges
--The tension increases for the character
--Sometimes, the character tries to solve the problem
Resolution (ending)
Standard--
--Resolve problems
--Teach lessons
--Make changes that tie back to the big meaning of your story.
--Explain a discovery with thinking or a realization
Standard--All of them
13. How to be a good partner:
When Listening:
Ask to see specific examples of what your partner has done: “Can you provide me more evidence of that?”
Ask for clarification: “Could you provide more evidence of that so I can understand it better?”
When providing feedback you can:
Start with a compliment: “One thing I love about what you have done as a writer is…”
Give some constructive (helpful) feedback: “One thing you might work on is: “
USE THE CHECKLIST!!!!!
Standard--All of them
Story Arc Examples
14. Use Transitions to show the passage of time!
How much later did things happen?
“Later that day” “A few minutes later” “A few hours later” “Meanwhile” “Suddenly” “Abruptly”
Did things happen earlier?
“Earlier that day” “Three hours earlier” “The previous day”
Did things happen much later?
“Years later as I reflect on this, an older and wiser person…”
Standard--All of them
Additional Resources
15. Hook the reader with a great lead!
Show what is happening
Show where it is happening
Give a clue of what the problem will be later!
One day
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16. The story arc
Make a new story arc!
Make sure you have a problem!
Make sure you have a resolution!
“Papa who wakes up alone in the Dark” example
One Day
Standard--All of them
Additional Resources Template Video 22
Example Video Video of Arcs Video 2017 Example Arc Example story
EXAMPLE OF STORY ARC TO STORY Video
The Lorax Falling off my bike Banditos Video
Mrs. Gorf “Goosebumps” Video 2022
Pictures Video 2021
Frank Was a Monster Who Wanted to Dance
Story Arc Examples
17. Flash Back
Scenes from the past to help emphasize the meaning of the story
Use your story arc
Choose a spot in the story arc that needs more elaboration, put a flashback
Need transitions such as: “I thought back to when…” “I remembered…” “I thought back to…”
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18. Reading to Revise
Read your story out loud.
Does it make sense?
Are you pausing anywhere? (that means add commas or periods!)
Enhance important parts!!!!
Standard--All of them
19. Revise by Streeeeeeeetching Out the Tension
--Don’t get to the worst part of the story first!
--Make things get worse and worse (more and more dramatic)
--Example from “Eleven”
Mrs. Price held the sweater up in class (Rachel was a little scared)
Sylvia said the sweater belonged to Rachel (Rachel started to get more upset)
Mrs. Price put the gross sweater on Rachel’s desk (Rachel was so upset she couldn’t talk)
Figurative Language, flashbacks, paragraphs, dream-the-dream more, Flash-forwards
Standard--All of them
20. Use Figurative Language!
Similes!
Can run through the story like a thread!
Like the red sweater in Eleven
An object of disgust
Nobody knew who it belonged to
Described in different ways like a mountain or a waterfall
Like the years of age in Eleven connected to the red sweater
Standard--All of them
20. Commas, our squiggly friends
Standard--All of them
Additional Resources
Example Video from class Video 3 Video 4
Sometimes commas are too much--try these guys!
No commas in Writer’s Workshop Story
21. Checklist Application
Standard--All of them
Additional Resources
This is two versions of the same story.
Zora’s Story-- The woman behind the mother and daughter helps the daughter see how important the mom is
Zora’s Story-- Removing an unimportant character
22. Ellipsis
Standard--All of them
Standard--All of them