Transitions That Show Time in Stories

Start with Narrative Plot Planner so students see the full shape of a story. Use Write a Narrative Ending over several days, one story at a time.

Fill time transitions into a story about Nia's art show and order 6 town festival events. Time transitions such as "years ago" and "once a year" tell the reader when each event in a story happens. The directions on the page read: In Part A, choose the transition that fits each blank in the story and use each one only once. In Part B, write 1 to 6 in the boxes to show the order the events happened. An answer key is included.

Yes, both. We made it for 6th Grade narrative writing, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with developing plot structure. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

A plot mountain shows a story rising from the problem through events that make it worse to the climax, then falling to the resolution. Narrative Plot Planner has six numbered boxes that match the mountain.

Time transitions such as years ago and once a year tell the reader when each event happens. Time Transitions in Stories has a bank of 12 and asks students to order 6 town festival events.

Three: The Kite Contest, The Owl Who Forgot and The Robot That Would Not Move. Each stops before the problem is solved and has a four-point checklist.