Narrative Writing

The sixth graders are working on writing a narrative paragraph that will lead to a narrative composition. There are five categories we are focusing on with the students.
1. Lead Sentence: introduces the narrative and states or hints at the main idea.
2. Support sentence 1: gives details that supports the main idea (tells what happens first) and EXPLAINS or ELABORATES.
3. Support sentence 2: gives details that supports the main idea (tells what happens second) and EXPLAINS or ELABORATES.
4. Support sentence 3: gives details that supports the main idea (tells what happens third) and EXPLAINS or ELABORATES.
5. Closing sentence: can tell the last event :(, OR exaplains what the writer thought/felt about the experience :), OR repeats the main idea in a new way.