Transcript Expository Text - Tech Coach Corner

Narrative Text
What’s Your Story?
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Story = Narrative
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Narratives
• Fiction
• Nonfiction
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What makes a narrative a
narrative?
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Sequence or order
Characters or people
Conflict or problem
Resolution or solution
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What’s narrative nonfiction?
• Explaining how to do something in steps.
• Describing an event as it happened—like
a story.
• Using story elements—literary elements to
tell a news story.
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Sequence or Order
• Narratives tend to follow a chronological
pattern—from beginning to end.
• Narratives, however, do not tell everything.
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Be Selective
• Don’t tell everything.
• Don’t tell about your whole life with your
aunt.
• Tell about the time she took you to shop
for a new pair of shoes for your first day of
school.
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Invitation to Read: What Does the
Writer Focus on?
“I never thought I was a good runner,
until the day in gym class when I won the
mile race. The course was marked with
colorful flags, and the sight of the flags
seemed to fire me up…”
(Write Source Gr. 5, page 84)
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Invitation to Write
Think about conflicts you’ve had —getting
into trouble, arguing, fighting, problems,
etc.
Make a list.
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Sensory Details
Take your topic and use these sentence
stems to think more about your topic.
•I see…
•I hear…
•I smell…
•I feel…
•I taste…
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