What is a story mountain planner?
A story mountain is a way of visually planning the plot and structure of a story, by separating the plot and structure into clear stages or sections. This is done by following the path of the main character up one side of a mountain to the climax of the story at the peak, then down the other side with the resolution.
What is a story mountain KS2?
A story mountain is a diagram which allows children to visualise the structure of a narrative and better discover how stories are pieced together. Teachers can set story maps or mountains as a task for KS2 children as a handy way for children to plan their story before they write it.
What is the purpose of a story mountain?
A story mountain is another tool to help children to understand story structure. The benefit of using a story mountain diagram to analyse text is that it enables children to understand that some stories often start with a description of setting and characters and then start to build up the action.
What is a story plan?
A story plan will help organise your ideas, develop characters and help ensure your story is interesting from beginning to end. Many stories follow the same basic format.
Why is planning a story important?
Planning helps you to see the overall picture so that you know where you can add details to write an interesting story. A good plan helps you to create characters that are life-like because they have reasons for their actions, instead of having events happening ‘all of a sudden’.
What is story mountain?
Story Mountain is one story structure or story map that can be taught to children to help them with creative writing. As the name suggests, these stories build to a big climax or obstacle that needs to be overcome, before being resolved and ended on the other side of the ‘mountain’.
What are the parts of a story mountain?
The Story Mountain is broken up into five parts: the Beginning, Conflict, Climax, Deflation and Resolution.
What is planning a story?
Writers plan their stories before they start writing so that they know what is going to happen. Planning is an important part of writing a good story. Writers call the main events that happen in a story the plot. A story mountain is a useful way to organise your plot.
How do you teach story planning KS2?
7 Techniques for Generating Story Writing Ideas in KS2
- Create a Classroom Story Generator. A story generator is guaranteed to get the creative juices flowing!
- Watch or Listen.
- Folklore and Fairy Tales.
- Storyboards.
- A Newspaper Clipping.
- Rewrite A Known Story.
- Let the Children Choose.