Short+Stories

=Short story writing = ===Our writing genre for term 3 is short stories. These are the success criteria we are learning about to help us write a well-structured, quality short story. Watch this space for our published stories...coming later this term!! ===

We are learning the structural features of narrative texts.

 * We will be successful when we can identify and use: **
 * An orientation that tells the audience who is in the story, when the story is taking place and where the action is happening
 * A complication that sets off a chain of events that influences what will happen in the story.
 * A sequence of events where the characters react to the complication.
 * A resolution in which the characters finally sort out the complication.
 * A coda/moral based on what has been learnt from the story (optional).

We will be successful when we can identify and use:

 * Specific characters
 * Time words that connect events to tell when they occur
 * Verbs to show the actions that occur in the story
 * Descriptive words to portray the characters and settings (adjectives, adverbs, similes)
 * Written in the past tense