Monday

Topic
KLA
Outcomes:

Foundation
Statement

Links With
Prior Learning
Intro:
Writing
resolutions
Explicit / Guided

Middle:
Guided/
Independent

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Narrative Resolutions
English Stage
3
EN3-1A- communicates effectively for a variety of audiences and purposes using increasingly challenging topics, ideas,
issues and language forms and features
EN3-2A - composes, edits and presents well-structured and coherent texts
EN3-4A - draws on appropriate strategies to accurately spell familiar and unfamiliar words when composing texts
EN3-5B - discusses how language is used to achieve a widening range of purposes for a widening range of audiences and
contexts
EN3-7C- thinks imaginatively, creatively, interpretively and critically about information and ideas and identifies connections
between texts when responding to and composing texts
EN3-6B- uses knowledge of sentence structure, grammar, punctuation and vocabulary to respond to and compose clear
and cohesive texts in different media and technology
Students will draw explore sophisticated narrative resolutions and the variety of strategies that can be applied to
appropriately complete a story. Students will look at a variety of ending types and discuss how the author has resolved
the complications and created either a climax or definitive ending for all characters. Students will analyze the issues with
over complicating their endings and methods of avoiding this. Meaningful endings will be explored and the importance of
maintaining the focus and engagement of the reader till the end of the narrative.
Students have previously explore sizzling starts, orientating the reader, accessing the senses and descriptive writing,
complications and methods of planning. This activity will require students to draw on all of these skills and knowledge to
create an appropriate and sophisticated resolution for their narrative.
Ask students to get out their narrative writing booklets and discuss the focus of resolutions. Provide open-ended
questions and promote discussion surrounding the below questions and create a mind map on the IWB
- What is the purpose of a resolution
- How does it connect to the complications the story
- What is important to remember about the characters?
- What has to be accounted for at the end of the narrative?
Hand out the range of picture books and in pairs students should examine and analyse the conflict within each and
identify the techniques and methods used to end and resolve the story
- Was there a moral to the story?
- Was there some underlying message that taught the reader something
- How were all the characters accounted for?
- Was there a climax just prior to the end?
- How did the connect it all back to the complications
- In what effective ways did they quickly find resolutions for some of the characters?
- How did they maintain the interest of the reader until the end?
Reading of the text The Little Red Fish by Taeeun Yoo up until the page where the fish come poring out of the book.
Discuss the events of the texts up until that point and the who the main characters are
- JeJe
- The little red fish
- The grandpa
Identify the location within which the story occurs and the significance of that and why it would be important to maintain
that context
Task:
Students are to resolve the story within one page of their writing book. Students need to avoid over writing or under
writing the ending- emphasis the links that need to be made to the context, character, and complication.
Highlight the expected standard and descriptive language that should be used
Collectively as a class outline the WALT, WILF and TIB of the activity
Consistently provide one-on-one feedback to students that is positive, supportive and constructive. Push students to
answer the set criteria of the task to the best of their ability.
STUDENTS MUST AVOID IN THEIR RESOLUTIONS:
- Everyone dying
- I woke up and it was all a dream
- Time travelling
- Major characters dying
- It all went black

Conclusion

Students will be asked to read allowed their conclusions

If there is time, the rest of the story should be revealed and a discussion should follow about the differences between
everyones resolutions
Discuss with students on whether they felt that achieved all of the criteria set out by the class and if they feel successful at
the task. For those who dont, discuss why
CRITERIA FOR LEARNING:
We Are Learning To (WALT) create a narrative ending that appropriately resolves all complications within the
story

Assessment
For Learning

What Im Looking For (WILF)

- Creativity
- Answers/ morals/ meanings
- All characters are provided with an ending
- All complications are resolved
- Appropriate use of language (descriptive, access all 5 senses, engaging and sophisticated)
This Is Because (TIB) we need to develop our skills in creating sophisticated narrative resolutions.

Resources

Narrative writing booklets

IWB
A variety of picture books
Text - The Little Red Fish by Taeeun Yoo
Writing books