Bring Your Narrative Writing To Life Worksheets

Related ELA Standard: W.7.3.B

Use Your Powers of Observation – Your eyes can take in a ton of information.

See | Hear | Smell | Touch | Taste – Can you sense what we are having you do here?

Bring Your Setting to Life – You really need to imagine what you are looking for here.

Make The Reader Feel Something – We start a scene for you and you make it better.

Bring Your Story to Life with Description – Descriptive vocabulary can come in handy here.

Vary the Pace! – The term narrative pace means the speed at which the writer takes a reader through a story. The story determines the pace.

Dialogue Does The Trick! – A good storyteller helps the reader sense the mood of his or her characters by what they say and how they say it.

Writing Dialogue – Read the passage below. Think of things the characters could do or say that would dramatize what is going on.

The Emotions of Characters – Dialogue can tell you how a character is feeling, and also gives clues to what a character is thinking.

What's Important to You... – Think about something in your life that is important to you.

Breathing Life into Settings – The picture, alone, should give you a bunch of ideas.

Picture This... – Find something or someone in your classroom and observe it or them closely.

Putting it All Together – Use precise, vivid words and appeal as much to the senses to help your reader see, hear, feel, smell and taste the scene.

Narrative Pace – Choose one of the story scene ideas below. On a separate sheet of paper, write two versions of the scene.

Is Your Setting Full of Life? – The setting is where a story takes place.