Writing a Narrative

Writing a narrative seems a logical next step for children who have been writing recounts of their own experiences. They just have to add some imagination to their story. Children are full of imagination so this should be easy right?

We have been reading Wonder by RJ Palacio.

As we have been reading we have found a range of figures of speech used. One of my favourite is hyperbola or exaggeration. Everyone's heard the story of the fish that got away it was too big to fit in the boat anyway.

Wonder is no exception Auggy talks about knowing every brick on the street. And we wondered every brick, does he mean that makes a fence? That is a lot of bricks. So every brick for every house WOW!

The reaction to using exaggeration has been positive. The children even wrote the worst pizza stories ever. Here are some examples of their exaggeration.


In front of me was the most disgusting, horrible pizza on burger buns. It would put me off my food for life. On top of the bun was pineapple, cheese, BBQ sauce, onions, sliced frankfurters and the worst part about it was the wiggly worms in hot sauce and chicken feat. I covered my mouth to stop my stomach churning. - Amelia

Then our teacher changed her smile grew wicked, the gleam in her eyes was scary. I waited for my pizza. The smell of the pizza drifted my way. Mmm..mm it smells yummy, but not when I saw my friends pizza with worms in it I was about to vomit.  When I got my pizza it had chicken feet in my pizza, I am never going to eat pizza again. - Krystal Leigh.

My puku was rumbling I had never been so hungry. I gathered my plate of pizza. As I stepped out the door my pizza fell on the ground. I couldn't believe the speed of the ants covering the bun. I picked them up to flick off the ant only to find the tiniest rocks stuck in the cheese. I was so hungry I did not want to tell anybody that I'd dropped my pizza. I took a bite and felt the rocks grating against my teeth. I dry reached. I'll never look at a pizza the same way again. - Braedyn

When I had the pizza on my plate I was about to taste it but I saw something moving inside the pizza. I wanted to vomit. It had worms in hot sauce and chicken feet too. Ugh! I looked away from my pizza I had never seen something so disgusting. - Mariah