Activities

1. Identify a writer’s purpose for writing a narrative text.
   
   
2. Identify the purpose of establishing a context in narrative writing.
   
   
3. Identify an intended audience for narrative writing.

4. Identify the point of view presented by a writer in a written narrative text.
   
   
5. Explain a strategy used by a writer to organize an event sequence in narrative writing.

6. Construct narrative that engagingly establishes a context and point of view and introduces a narrator and/or characters to orient the reader.
   
   
7. Evaluate a written narrative to determine if ideas and information are presented and developed naturally and logically to support the writer’s purpose.

Answer Key/Rubric

1. Student identifies a writer’s purpose for writing a narrative text. The purpose of a written narrative is to convey to a reader real or imagined events through genre specific elements. Genre specific elements of narratives include, but are not limited to, plot structure, narrator, characters, and setting. A writer’s purpose for writing a narrative text may also include informing or entertaining the audience.
   
   
2. Student identifies the purpose of establishing a context in narrative writing. The context created by the writer of a written narrative engages and orients the audience to the story being told. This allows the reader of the story to be introduced to the narrative’s point of view, narrator, characters, setting, and plot structure.
   
   
3. Student identifies an intended audience for narrative writing. Intended audiences for narrative writing include individuals or groups a writer intends to inform or entertain by real or imagined events through genre specific elements.
   
   
4. Student identifies the point of view presented by a writer in a written narrative text. The point of view is the perspective from which the story is told. The point of view of a narrative is revealed through the narrative voice, narrator, plot, characters, setting, and overall theme of the narrative. Examples include:

• First-person point of view: The story is narrated by a character of the story
• Second-period point of view: The story is narrated by a voice or perspective that refers to a character using the pronouns you, your, and yours.
• Third-person point of view: The story is narrated by a voice or perspective outside of the story.

5. Student explains a strategy used by a writer to organize an event sequence in narrative writing. Strategies include, but are not limited to:

• Linear/Chronological: The events of the narrative are presented to the audience in the order they occurred.
• Episodic: The events of the narrative are presented in a nonlinear manner that include multiple shifts in time.
• Circular: The events of the narrative begin and are resolved in the same setting.

6. Student constructs narrative that engagingly establishes a context and point of view and introduces a narrator and/or characters to orient the reader. This context and point of view is revealed to the audience of the narrative through the narrative voice, narrator, plot, characters, setting, and overall theme of the narrative.
   
   
7. Student evaluates a written narrative to determine if ideas and information are presented and developed naturally and logically to support the writer’s purpose. The student determines whether the plot structure and event sequence of the narrative unfolds naturally and logically. The evaluation also includes an analysis of the words and phrases including, but not limited to, descriptive details and sensory language to develop the experiences and events described in the narrative.