This checklist helps fifth graders write clear and engaging narratives.
- Planning
- Choose a topic
- Identify the purpose
- Define the audience
- Brainstorm ideas
- Create an outline
- Characters
- Develop main character
- Develop supporting characters
- Describe character traits
- Show character development
- Setting
- Choose the location
- Describe the time period
- Create vivid descriptions
- Incorporate sensory details
- Plot
- Establish the beginning
- Introduce a conflict
- Develop the climax
- Resolve the conflict
- Write the conclusion
- Writing
- Use dialogue
- Show, don’t tell
- Maintain consistent tense
- Vary sentence structure
- Use correct punctuation