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A narrative tells a story about something that can either be fiction or non-fiction, depending on the author. Once the topic is chosen, the narrative goes through a sequence of events with a definative beginning, middle, and end. Characters. plot, and setting have details to support the story and the author keeps his or her audience in mind while writing the narrative.
When the author keeps his or her audience in mind, he or she develops the events into a unifying theme so the story flows beginning with an intro that gives the reader the who, what, why, and where, the characters are introduced, the scene set, and an incident that leads into the body of the narrative, the middle. Conflicts develop in the middle that lead to the climatic point of the story that is followed by a resolution in the ending of the story.
Writers workshop is valuable for writers since it gives them a chance for their work to be read aloud to an audience and it gives the sudience a chance to respond. In a classroom, the workshop usually consists of 3-5 students in a circle with one reading and the others commenting around the circle after the story is done. Comments should follow the Sandwich Theory (SBH,2007) guideines where the audience says what they like about the writing, give suggestions or ask questions and end with some sort of positive, encouraging comment. The school where I once worked did wrtiers workshop on a grand scale, involving the entire school. Once everyone had done a class workshop, we have a young authors day with tables or desks set up outside each class, decorated to invite people to stop and read, and everyone (parents, teachers, other students) went throughout the school reading and commenting in everyone's stories. It was really cool and they did this for many years. I hope that they are still continuing with this special day.