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July 20, 2017

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by Maggie Knutson

Lesson plan

Exploring the Narrative

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to describe the main parts of a plot.
Students will be able to identify different kinds of narratives and the key features of a narrative.

Introduction

(5 minutes)

Facilitate a Know, Want to Know, Learned (KWL) process with the topic: narratives.
Write KWL on the board, 'K for Know, W for Want to Know and L for Learned.'
Ask students what they know about narratives, noting their responses and ideas under each category.
Ask them what they want to know, and explain that at the end you will come back to this and discuss what they learned.

Explicit Instruction/Teacher modeling

(10 minutes)

Connect any of the ideas shared in the opening activity with the idea that narrative is a broad genre. Explain that any story is a narrative but there are many kinds of stories.
Distribute the What is a Narrative? Kinds of Narratives worksheet.
Follow the directions on the sheet to create a map of the different genres that narratives can fall under.
Make connections to other discussions your class has had about genres.

Guided Practice

(10 minutes)

Explain that stories all have similar elements or features. Some of the terms in the next activity they’ll surely be familiar with and some will likely be new.
Project the What is a Narrative? Key Features worksheet.
Review each of the terms in the box at the top. Discuss each term as a class and making connections to stories you read as a class.

Independent working time

(10 minutes)

Distribute the What is a Narrative? Key Features worksheet.
Assign students to complete this sheet independently or with a partner.
Review the answers as a class when all students have finished.

Differentiation

Support

Complete the exercise as a class as you review it in Guided Practice/Modeling.

Enrichment

Have students use the Diagramming the Plot of a Story worksheet to examine the plot of a story they have recently read.

Assessment

(10 minutes)

Have students complete the Understanding Plot by Creating Your Own Story worksheet to apply their knowledge of plot terms to a simple story of their own.

Review and closing

(5 minutes)

Come back to the KWL that you started with. Ask students to share some things they learned about narratives in this lesson.

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