Story Outline Skeleton Activity

- Year groups
- Lower Secondary, Primary, Years 5–9
- Pages
- 1
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Creative Writing, Writing, English
- Topic
- Story Outline Skeleton Activity, Story Outline Skeleton
- Preparation
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About this resource
Activity Introduction
An amazing activity designed for the students to learn more about languages.
Story Outline Skeleton
Do you enjoy learning English? Which topic do you like the most Grammar, writing, reading, spelling, comprehension, vocabulary or phonics?
Have you ever tried to learn any other language? If yes, tell us more about it?
How many languages are spoken in the world? What do you think the most interesting one?
Can you say Hello in Spanish, French or even Japanese? You can give it a try!
Can you name the countries that speaks Portuguese?
How many countries speaks Dutch?
What is the less spoken language in the whole world?
Would you like to learn a new language someday? If yes, which language will you choose?
Story Outline Skeleton Activity
The activity is perfect for encouraging the researching skills for the students, while learning more about world languages.
Story Outline Skeleton
This friendly designed worksheet is suitable for students at school, homeschooling, and as a group activity.
Instructions
Choose an existing story or come up with your own and use the parts of the skeleton as a guide to make your story outline.
Format
Available in a PDF format.
In the classroom
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, turning point, 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, a turning point, and a resolution.
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Questions teachers ask about this resource
Does this template include a sample story to outline, or do students supply their own?
Students supply the story themselves — either an existing one they choose or an original idea — and use the six-part skeleton (obvious and hidden character needs, an inciting incident, three complications, help, and a resolution) to map it out on the page.
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Concepts & topics
Core concepts
Story structure
Character needs
Narrative arc
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