This slideshow lesson focuses on organizational structures for narratives including a review of narratives and a list of possible organizational structure types: chronological or sequential order, climactic order, in media, and...

A printable narrative pyramid where students can record information about a story including the character, setting, problem, main events, and solution. Directions on how to use this type of graphic organize as well as lists of teaching...

This four-page essay provides an example of an autobiographical narrative. Clicking on the "Writer's Guide" link in the upper right-hand corner of the page enables the user to get tips, directions, and explanations on the essay.

Teaching the plot structure of narratives is made easy with this diagram of Freytag's Triangle (also known as the plot pyramid).

This reading resource provides vocabulary words with definitions. All words are related to the elements of narratives. A link to associated review activities is included.

This lesson introduces the narrative tense.

Details of the Allied military movements during the invasion of Normandy on an interactive map. Covers a three-month period, beginning with D-day (June 6) and ending with the liberation of Paris in late August.

From the Library of Congress American Memory project, this extensive online archive contains first-person narratives of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves that were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal...

Transcripts of hundreds of oral histories and slave narratives from 1936-1938 collected during the Federal Writers' Project.

This site from NPR describes a new approach to medical training, the narrative medicine program. Listen to young doctors describe their "Encounters and emotional reactions," to patients.

This Daily Teaching Tools collection provides graphic organizers for writing. Elaborate graphic organizers for the following areas are provided: persuasive essays, expository essays, paragraph writing, fiction pieces, narrative writing,...

This lesson explains how characters develop in fiction writing. W.11-12.3d Sensory/precise lang narratives

This slideshow focuses on characterization including defining and discussing the 5 methods of characterizations: speech, action, description, interaction, and thoughts with examples of each. It also covers the importance of...

This is a printable PDF template page for 6 Trait Post-it Notes for Revision and Editing for descriptive and narrative writing.

This is a printable page of checklists that students can use during revision and editing of descriptive and narrative writing.

This lesson introduces the back story in fiction writing. W.11-12.3c Narrative Org

This lesson introduces the purpose and types of characters in fiction writing. W.9-10.3b Narrative techn

The Battle of Nashville Preservation Society (BONPS) offers a narrative of the Battle of Nashville. Content addresses Hood's strategy to reclaim Tennessee, the Union opposition, the steps to battle, the battle itself (blow-by-blow), and...

The Battle of Nashville Preservation Society (BONPS) offers a narrative of the Battle of Nashville. Content addresses Hood's strategy to reclaim Tennessee, the Union opposition, the steps to battle, the battle itself (blow-by-blow), and...

Teaching the plot structure of narratives is made easy with this diagram of Freytag's Triangle (also known as the plot pyramid).

A photograph from the National Archives and Records Administration of part of the original Treaty of Paris with a brief narrative about the provisions of the Treaty.

Check out this fascinating in-depth biography of Bella Abzug (1920-1998 CE), a civil rights activist and women's advocate elected to congress. Provides links to pictures, a timeline, and many personal narratives.

A collection of five interactive maps that each focus on a different perspective of Sherman's March to the Sea. These include a factual map, one that looks at African Americans and Southern civilians, one about travel, one on soldiers,...

Pictorial narrative of Portugal's role and position in the Great War. The exhibition shows the main events of the history and impact of the Great War in Portugal.