Narrative Structures

Story Grammar

• Story refers to a narrative written discourse.

• Grammar usually described as the study of words (morphology) and how they come together to form a sentences (syntax).

Story Grammar

• Addresses the elements of a story.

• A type of strategy for cognitive literacy for students.

• It aims to improve students' comprehension in reading by giving them a framework they can use when reading stories.

Story Grammar

One reason for using story grammar is to capture the elements that needed to be included in the story for it to be considered an adequate story.

Outline of a Story Grammar

Name of Student Title of a Story AuthorReference

Setting:

Characters: Real

Characters

Fictitious Characte

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Dynamic Characte

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Static Characte

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Main Characters

Minor Characters

Character Sketch:

Plot:

Conclusion:

Beginning

Middle

End

Name of Student ______________ Title of a Story ______________Author ______________Reference ______________

Setting: Where does the story take place?

Characters: Who is in your story?Real

CharactersFictitious

CharactersDynamic

CharactersStatic

Characters

Major Characters

Minor Characters

Character Sketch: Write a description about the characters.

It contains elements of description, but it also usually contains direct quotations and accounts of the person's habitual ways of doing things.

Beginning

Middle

End

Plot: The action in the story. It usually has a problem or a conflict.

Plot:

Conclusion: The conclusion tells about how the problems or conflict is solved. It tells us what happened.

 

Reported by: Maecy Castrillo