Elaboration Strategies for Narrative Writing Describe your scenes and characters so readers can visualize them Use specific details color, size etc – Use your senses what your heard, smelled , felt etc – Use action details what your hands were doing, what your eyes – were doing etc Use Strings of actions connect the actions together – Use dialogue with actions to move the story along Reveal character’s feelings using don’t tell” “Show Reveal what characters did thought said felt - etc – – – Use specific actions play a movie in your head – describe character’s thinking through reflecting describe what precise actions gave characters their emotions describe characters internal and external characteristics reveal characters wants, needs and motivations embed characters thoughts and actions to reveal theme use symbols to mean something larger and tie to the main theme stretch out important parts to reveal the heart of the story
Elaboration Strategies for Narrative Writing Describe your scenes and characters so readers can visualize them Use specific details – color, size etc Use your senses – what your heard, smelled , felt etc Use action details – what your hands were doing, what your eyes were doing etc Use Strings of actions – connect the actions together Use dialogue with actions to move the story along Reveal character’s feelings using “Show don’t tell” Reveal what characters did – thought – said – felt - etc Use specific actions – play a movie in your head describe character’s thinking through reflecting describe what precise actions gave characters their emotions describe characters internal and external characteristics reveal characters wants, needs and motivations embed characters thoughts and actions to reveal theme use symbols to mean something larger and tie to the main theme stretch out important parts to reveal the heart of the story
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