How to Write an Imaginative Narrative for Kids Episode 3: Planning Your Story
3 min2nd3rd4thReading & Writing (ELA)
Summary
Planning an imaginative narrative with a story map -- characters, setting, problem, and solution -- before drafting.
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Teaching resources
Discussion questions
A story map plans your characters, problem, and solution.
- What parts go on a story map?
- Why plan the problem and solution before drafting?
- What is the problem in your story?
Quick work-a-long
Words to know: plan, story map, solution
- Fill in a story map: characters, setting, problem, solution.
- Tell your plan to a partner.