Story Outline Skeleton Activity
- Year levels
- Years 4–8
- Pages
- 1
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Creative Writing, Writing, English
- Topic
- Story Outline Skeleton Activity, Story Outline Skeleton
- Preparation
- Print ready
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About this resource
Use this one-page story outline to plan an original narrative or map an existing story. The skeleton prompts obvious and hidden character needs, a starting incident, three complications, help and a resolution.
Model a familiar story before students complete their own plan. The printable PDF is a planning template and does not include a sample story or answer key.
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Plan a story's structure by distinguishing a main character's obvious external need from a hidden internal need
Sequence a narrative's inciting incident, complications, help, and resolution before drafting
Teaching tips
Model the template first using a familiar story (a fairy tale or a class read-aloud) before asking students to apply it to their own original story idea.
Use as a pre-writing planning step ahead of a longer narrative writing assignment, since the template contains no space for full drafting.
Skills covered
Narrative structure planning — students distinguish a character's obvious and hidden needs and sequence an inciting incident, three complications, help the character receives, and a resolution.
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Story structure
Character needs
Narrative arc
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