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EnglishWriting CompositionAges 10–12

Planning Narratives

Plan narrative writing by considering how authors have developed characters and settings, drawing on techniques observed in texts read, heard, or performed

Lesson

Set out your lesson

Notice how an original mentor text reveals character and setting, then transfer the techniques into a new narrative plan.

Before teaching

Use this short check, then start teaching.

Activity

Ask: Who will read your story, and what do you want them to notice or feel? Explain that audience means intended readers and purpose means the job of the text. Ask for one action that could show care without the word caring. Accept checking a cracked cup before handing it to someone. If the learner only gives labels, model the action. A plan is short notes for a story, not a finished story.

Policy

Check readiness directly. Prerequisite availability is not attainment.

Printer, credit, and teaching notes

Check readiness directly. Prerequisite availability is not attainment.

Use paper and a pencil. All required texts, notes and planning fields are on the stage sheets. Start with the readiness check. Read Show, then work on Guided. Use a separate sheet for Try. There is no time or word-count target. Read the active sheet on screen and write on plain paper. No printer, cutting, purchase or internet is needed. An adult may read instructions or passages without interpreting them. Record read-aloud help, prompts and scribing. Oral answers can show reasoning; dictation and adult scribing do not show independent written composition or handwriting. Split the lesson or pause as needed. Adult-only: keep keys and scripts away from learner pages. Share only the current Show model. Put Show and Guided work aside before Try. Keep the fresh passage or fact notes available in Try; text analysis is not a memory test. Give no target answers, phrases or interpretations during the first attempt. If help is needed, give it and record the work as supported. Use the supplied fiction. No real names, family stories, private experiences, uploads or public sharing are needed. No physical performance is required.

Use the complete materials on screen or print only the current sheet. Keep adult guidance out of learner view.

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Library of Congress · Practice link — not the full lesson

Aesop's Fables

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Before you open · source notes

Aesop's Fables supports Planning Narratives. An adult previews and guides; this is a learning page, not a scored quiz.

Free educational page, no sign-in required for the tested path.

Before you open

Ask the learner one fact they learned and one question they still have.

Opening this link does not save learning or assess mastery.

Source, access and review notes

Public Library of Congress page. An anonymous GET on 2026-11-12 returned HTTP 200 with no login or payment prompt for this URL. Opening the link does not save practice or assess mastery. An adult should preview and guide the learner.

Library of Congress. “Aesop's Fables.” External page; Gakuva does not copy, host, embed, or redistribute materials.

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Check understanding

  • Identify specific authorial techniques for character development from a mentor text
  • Plan a character using techniques such as showing through action borrowed from a studied author
  • Analyse how an author builds setting and apply similar techniques in planning own narrative
“When your child is about to write a story, do they think ahead about what their main character is like and where the story will take place before they start writing?”

Curriculum record

Type
Meta
Subject
English
Domain
Writing Composition
Age range
Ages 10–12

Standards

acara-v9:AC9E5LE05acara-v9:AC9E6LE05uk-nc-2013:Eng.UKS2.Write.Comp.1c