Story Outline Skeleton Activity
- Grades
- Grades 4–8
- Pages
- 1
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Creative Writing, Writing, ELA
- Topic
- Story Outline Skeleton Activity, Story Outline Skeleton
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Ontario expectations
- D1.4 — Ontario grade 6 language d1.4
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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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Ontario curriculum
Ontario curriculum expectations
Ontario expectations
Ontario expectations
- D1.4 — Ontario Grade 6 Language D1.4: classify and sequence ideas and collected information, using appropriate strategies and tools, and identify and organize relevant content, taking into account the chosen text form, genre, and medium.
Core concepts
Core concepts
Story structure
Character needs
Narrative arc
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