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Story Planning Worksheet

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Story Planning Worksheet

Plan an original story using the prompts below. You may choose any genre. Use the story mountain to organise your ideas, then illustrate one moment from your story.

Story foundations

Build the world and people for your story.

1.Give your story a title. What might the title make a reader wonder about?
2.Who is the main character? Describe one thing they want and one quality that may help or hinder them.
3.Where and when will the story happen? Add one detail that helps a reader picture the setting.

Plan the story mountain

Think about how events build, change and come to a close.

4.Opening: What is happening in the character’s ordinary world before the main trouble begins?
5.Build-up and problem: What event creates a challenge, and what makes the challenge difficult for your character?
6.Solution: What does the character do to tackle the problem? Include an action, decision or help from another character.
7.Ending: How does the story finish, and what has changed for the main character?

Bring a moment to life

Picture a memorable scene from your planned story.

8.Draw an important or exciting moment from your story. Include details that show where it happens and who is there.
9.Write one or two sentences explaining what is happening in your illustration and how the character feels.

Word choices

Choose words that could make your story more precise and vivid.

10.Select at least one word from each group that you might use in your story. Add a different word of your own to any group.

3 printable pages

  • Story Planning Worksheet, page 1 of 3: Story foundations, Plan the story mountain

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  • Story Planning Worksheet, page 2 of 3: Bring a moment to life

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  • Story Planning Worksheet, page 3 of 3: Word choices

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