Narrative writing can be incredibly personal, which makes it easy for some students and difficult for others. Our narrative writing graphic organizer bundle can help students of all ages plan out and write strong narrative essays and creative stories. The organizers are simple to use and free to download.

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Narrative Writing Graphic Organizer Bundle

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How To Use Our Narrative Writing Graphic Organizers

Here’s what you’ll get in the narrative writing bundle:

One-Page Narrative Writing Worksheet

This worksheet is an all-in-one guide to narrative writing! Students can map out their composition, making notes about the topic, theme, setting, characters, and plot. It also includes a handy checklist to remind them to add details, ensure they have a beginning, middle, and end, and more.

What’s Your Story? Topic and Theme

For students who are writing longer essays or need more guidance, try our set of detailed organizers. This one helps kids brainstorm ideas, choose a story they want to tell, and identify the theme that will tie it all together.

Who, Where, and When? Setting and Characters

When it comes to narrative writing, the more details, the better! This organizer page will help students flesh out the characters in their narrative and find the right words to set the scene of time and place.

Beginning, Middle, and End

Narrative writing tells a story—one with a beginning, middle, and end. Use this page to guide students in crafting the plot that makes up the bulk of their narrative composition. They can make notes of the words they want to use, as well as illustrations to help capture the mood.

What is narrative writing?

Narrative writing tells a story—whether true or fiction. This category includes creative writing like novels, short stories, and epic poems or ballads. It also encompasses memoirs, biographies and autobiographies, and personal narrative essays.

Narrative writing includes these elements:

• Plot with a beginning, middle, and end
• Setting
• Characters
• Conflict and resolution
• Theme (author’s purpose)
• Told in chronological order (may use flashbacks)

Learn more about teaching narrative writing:

Top 10 Narrative Writing Ideas for Kids

Try these 10 prompts to engage your students in narrative writing. Plus, get our complete list of 65 narrative writing ideas here!

1. Describe a time when you did something you didn’t want to and ended up liking it.
2. What is your happiest memory?
3. Write about a time when you or someone you know displayed courage.
4. Explore a time when you felt you were treated unfairly.
5. When was the last time you questioned something you had thought to be true?
6. Describe a performance or sporting event you took part in.
7. Tell about a time when you made a mistake and had to apologize and/or fix it.
8. Write about meeting your best friend for the first time and how your relationship developed.
9. Tell the story of your first day of kindergarten.
10. Describe a time when you had to make a difficult decision.

More Writing Prompts for Kids

We’ve got so many ideas and prompts to spark young writers! Take a look at these:

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