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Narrative Structure and Transitions

Read each question carefully. Choose, match or write your answers in the spaces provided.

Build a Narrative

1.Which part of a story usually introduces the main characters and where they are?

The opening
The middle
The ending
The title

2.What is most likely to happen during the middle of a narrative?

The setting is introduced and nothing changes.
A challenge develops and the characters respond to it.
Every character is introduced for the first time.
The story explains what happened after the ending.

3.Which three words or phrases could help show the order of events in a story? Select three.

A moment later
For instance
Afterwards
In contrast
At last

4.Complete the sentence with a transition that shows the events happened in sequence: “Mila packed her lunch. , she cycled to school.”

5.Match each transition with the relationship it signals. Use each letter once.

1. Meanwhile
2. Therefore
3. Later
4. However

C. A result follows from a cause
A. An event happens after another
D. A contrast or change in direction
B. Two events happen at the same time

Plan and Connect Events

6.Plan a narrative about a lost pēpi penguin. Note who the characters are and where the story takes place.

7.For your penguin story, describe one problem or important event that could happen in the middle.

8.For your penguin story, describe how the problem could be resolved at the end.

9.Write three different transitions that could connect events in a narrative.

10.Complete the sentence with a transition that makes the sequence clear: “Ari heard a flutter by the shed. , she opened the door carefully.”

Recognise Story Structure

11.A child finds a duckling, helps it and searches for its mother. Which part of the story does the search represent: the beginning, middle or ending?

12.Read the story moments and label each one O for opening, M for middle or E for ending: (a) Hana finds a warm, dry place for the wet kitten. (b) Hana discovers a kitten hiding beneath a bench during a storm. (c) The kitten settles into a blanket at Hana’s home.

13.Explain how transitions help a reader follow a narrative. Include one example of a transition and what it tells the reader.