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Creating a Narrative: revising
LearNING STraTeGIeS:
Revising, Adding, Drafting, Sharing and Responding
Introducing the Strategy: Adding
The adding strategy is a revision strategy. With this strategy, you make conscious choices to enhance a piece of your writing by adding words, phrases, sentences, or ideas. For example, characters and incidents should be fully developed in narrative writing. Adding details as you revise can make a character come alive for the reader or make the story more appealing.
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Learning Targets
• Examine and use revision strategies to enhance narrative writing.
• Add dialogue and incorporate transitions and sensory details into a final draft.
No one ever creates a perfect piece of writing with just one try. Revision gives you the chance to look at your writing critically and decide how to improve it.
Adding Dialogue
Adding dialogue is one way to enhance narrative writing. When adding dialogue, it is important to vary your use of dialogue tags. Dialogue tags are phrases used to explain who is speaking. For example, look at this line from Flipped:
“No, no, no!” my dad says, then pulls her up by the arm. The dialogue tag is the phrase “my dad says.”
1. Brainstorm words other than “says” that you could use in dialogue tags, categorizing them by beginning letter. These verbs should be vivid and more descriptive than “said.”
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