Red’s Narrative Map

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🗺️ Part 1: Map the Opening

WALT: identify the opening, setting, characters, problem, events and possible resolution.

Success criteria: I can name narrative components and support my ideas with a detail from the text.

1. Opening: What does the author reveal first?

2. Setting: Where and when does the opening take place? Record one detail.

3. Characters: Who is introduced? Record a character detail.

4. Problem: What unexpected situation or problem begins the narrative?

5. Key events: List two important events from the opening.

6. Possible resolution or prediction: What might happen next? Use a clue from the opening.

🔍 Part 2: Notice the Author’s Choices

WALT: notice how the author creates humour and curiosity.

Record a short detail or a few key words. You do not need to copy a long passage.

7. Humour: What detail, action or choice creates humour?

8. Curiosity: What detail makes you wonder what will happen next?

✏️ Part 3: Build a Writer’s Sentence

WALT: orally rehearse and write a clear sentence about an author’s choice.

Say your sentence to a partner first. Then complete the frame.

9. The author creates ____________________ by ________________________________.

10. Optional supporting detail: The text shows this when ____________________________________________.

Success criteria: My sentence names an author’s choice, explains its effect, and is complete.

🔑 Teacher Answer Key

Note: Accept equivalent answers that are supported by the class text. The responses below are concise model answers based on a typical opening in which Red begins a journey and encounters an unexpected danger.

1. Opening: The author first introduces Red and establishes what Red is about to do.

2. Setting: The opening takes place at Red’s home and on the route through the woods or forest. A supporting detail should identify the location or time, such as the path, trees, daylight or morning.

3. Characters: Red is introduced, along with another important character such as a parent, grandparent or the wolf. A character detail should describe Red’s task, appearance, personality or actions.

4. Problem: Red faces an unexpected danger or interruption during the journey, such as meeting the wolf or being tricked from the safe path.

5. Key events: Red begins the journey and encounters the problem. Other valid events include receiving instructions, meeting the wolf, sharing information or leaving the path.

6. Possible resolution or prediction: Red may discover the danger and reach safety, or another character may arrive to help. The prediction should refer to a clue such as the wolf’s behaviour, the warning Red receives or the growing danger.

7. Humour: Humour may come from the wolf’s exaggerated behaviour, an unexpected action, a disguise or the contrast between what a character believes and what the reader knows.

8. Curiosity: The danger, the wolf’s unusual behaviour or Red’s decision to continue the journey makes the reader wonder what will happen next.

9. Model sentence: The author creates curiosity by introducing the wolf before Red understands the danger.

10. Model supporting detail: The text shows this when the wolf appears, asks Red questions or secretly changes the plan.