narrative

• Pattern of Development


  The logical arrangement of ideas to help follow ideas easily and understand a text better
• Having the ability to recognize the pattern of development helps distinguish major details from minor ones and predict ideas
• Narration


  A story written to explain what, when, and who, usually in chronological order
• Narration is derived from the Latin word narrare, meaning related or told
• Elements of a narrative

  • Setting
  • Characters
  • Plot
  • Point of View (POV)
• Chronology


  Organizing ideas or events according to time
• Signal Words for Chronology

  • About
  • After
  • Afterwards
  • As soon as
  • At
  • At this point
  • Before
  • During
  • Eventually
  • In the meantime
  • Later
  • Mean
  • Meanwhile
  • Next
  • Next week
  • Presently
  • Prior to
• Transitional words for Chronology

  • After
  • Finally
  • Soon
  • As (soon as)
  • Later
  • Then
  • Before
  • Meanwhile
  • Upon
  • During
  • Next
  • When
  • First
  • Now
  • While
• Types of Narration


  • 1st person
  • 2nd person
  • 3rd person
• Improvised flotation device creation

  Knot off the leg holes of your pants, fill the legs with air, knot off the ways to trap the air, hold the pants underwater
• The Typhoon developed from an active low-pressure area to a tropical cyclone on September 24, 2009
• Relief and rescue operations during a typhoon

  Government raised storm signals, reports of flooding, state of calamity declared, relief and rescue operations conducted
• Palace liaison Jesus Ayala met Mother Teresa of Calcutta, India and had an incident to share
• Chito, a palace staff member, kissed Mother Teresa's hands and confessed his sins to her