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Story Structure Planning

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Story Structure Planning

Help Wiremu and Talia plan a story set in a hardware store. Use the story clues, then plan an adventure of your own. Remember: a story has a beginning, a middle with a problem, and an ending that solves it.

Read the story clues

Beginning: Nikau and Talia visit the hardware store with their whānau to buy a small box of screws for a wobbly toy cart. Middle: A gust from the open door scatters the screws across the floor. The cart is still wobbly, and the shop is busy. Ending: Nikau spots the screws near a display, and Talia helps gather them into the box. They tighten the cart’s handle at home, and it rolls smoothly again.

1.Which event belongs in the middle of the story?
  • Nikau and Talia go to the hardware store.
  • A gust scatters the screws across the floor.
  • The cart rolls smoothly again.
2.Write the problem the children need to solve in the story.
3.Number these events 1, 2 and 3, from first to last: the screws scatter; the children visit the hardware store; the cart rolls smoothly.
4.Complete the sentence with a word that shows what happens next: “The screws rolled away. , Talia spotted them near a display.”
5.Match each part of the story structure to its job.
  • Beginning
  • Middle
  • Ending
  • Shows how the problem is solved
  • Introduces characters and setting
  • Shows a problem and what happens because of it

Plan your own hardware-store adventure

Choose a character, a small problem and a way to solve it. Your story can be funny, surprising or kind.

6.Who is your main character, and what are they hoping to do at the hardware store?
7.Write one or two sentences introducing your character and the hardware-store setting.
8.What problem appears? Write what makes this part exciting or tricky.
9.How does your character solve the problem, and how does the story finish?
10.Add one describing word to make an object or place in your story more interesting. Write the word and what it describes.
Draw the trickiest or most exciting moment in your planned story. Add one label to show an important object.

3 printable pages

  • Story Structure Planning, page 1 of 3: Read the story clues

    Page 1

  • Story Structure Planning, page 2 of 3: Plan your own hardware-store adventure

    Page 2

  • Story Structure Planning, page 3 of 3: 8. What problem appears? Write what makes this part exciting or tricky.

    Page 3

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