For example, maybe it was your first time riding a big roller coaster, you made a friend at the playground, built a sandcastle at the beach, made cookies with your grandmother, etc.Ĭhoosing one of those memories and zooming in on the details and feelings of the moment will make for a much better story than simply writing about summer. The slice may represent a “Family Trip.” Within that slice, there are seeds or specific events/things that were memorable on the trip. Maybe your family took a trip or did something fun together over the summer. So, you take a slice out of that watermelon. The whole watermelon represents a broad topic or big idea, like “Summer.” You wouldn’t want to write about your entire summer in one story. So, we like to use a watermelon as a metaphor. This concept is more difficult for students to understand than one would think. Now, students will need help narrowing their writing ideas down to a specific event. I like to think that this structure image helps students remember that you can fill your burger with yummy ingredients (events and details), but it also needs a top and bottom (an introduction and conclusion).

This anchor chart displays the narrative writing structure as a hamburger. Next, you will want to show students the narrative writing structure. However, writing those personal stories will help students develop writing skills that will enhance their fictional narratives, too! Initially, students will be writing stories about events that they experienced, personal narratives. The anchor chart above divides the topic into personal and fictional narrative writing.

Introduce the Narrative Writing Structureįirst, students will need to know what Narrative Writing is! Students will be tasked with writing narrative stories throughout their education. In this case, the anchor charts are going to help students better understand the requirements and structure of narrative writing. Anchor charts are always a great tool for introducing or even revisiting a skill. The creativity and possibilities that come with this type of writing are endless! Today, we are going to take a look at 7 strong anchor charts for teaching narrative writing. Narrative Writing is my personal favorite type of writing to teach.

Fiction story elements anchor chart