Narrative Writing

Why is it important to use narrative/descriptive writing strategies?

• They help to keep the reader engaged in your writing and are creative ways to describe important characters, settings, and events.

• It is not important. They are a waste of time.

• They help to make the story flow from one idea to the next.

Which is true about sensory details?

• The purpose is to make writing more detailed and interesting

• They describe at least one of the senses.

• Both are true.

How can you know that something is written in the first-person point of view?

• pronouns like I, my, and ours are used

• the author is addressing the reader

• the narrator is not in the story

• pronouns like I, ours and him are used

When the narrator uses the pronouns, "she", "he", and "them", the story is written in...

• first- person point of view

• third person point of view

• second person point of view

A piece of writing that describes an incident and includes a personal response to and reflection on the event.

• Fiction

• Narrative

• Nonfiction

• Memoir

A ________ writing develops a real or imagined experience or event.

• narrative

• informational

• opinion

an essay that includes a story about a personal experience told from the author or narrator's perspective

• argumentative

• persausive

• informative

• narrative

You have read the passage “Taco Head,” a story about a student who struggles with their identity and culture during lunch at school. Write an alternative ending about the narrated events in the story to show how the main character stands up to their bullies. Provide key details and examples from the passage to support your writing. Which type of writing is the prompt asking you to do?

• Argumentative

• Informative

• Narrative

You have read the passage adapted from “The First Night at Sea,” which focuses on the narrator’s first night aboard a sailboat on a two-year journey. Write a continuation of the passage that describes what happens next. Be sure to use what you have learned about the setting, characters, and plot of the passage. Which type of writing is the prompt asking you to do?

• Narrative

• Informative

• Argumentative

a fiction story written with a clear sequence of events

• organization

• development

• opinion text

• narrative text

• prompt