The Colourful Semantics Narrative and Storytelling Resource is a practical, visually structured toolkit designed to strengthen narrative writing across your school.

Built around the five key elements of storytelling: characters, setting, plot, problem and resolution, it provides clear teaching guidance, scaffolded story planning templates, and targeted support for developing inference and prediction skills.

With fully editable templates, you can easily add your own symbols and text from focus books, ensuring seamless links to your curriculum.

The included bank of narrative symbols reinforces structure and supports independence for all learners. Designed to align with and enhance your school’s narrative progression document, this resource promotes a consistent, progressive approach to teaching narrative writing across all year groups.

The Five Elements of Narrative Writing

Clear, structured guidance on the five key components of narrative writing:

  • Characters
  • Setting/setting
  • Plot/Events
  • Conflict/problem
  • Resolution

Each element is broken down into manageable steps to help students understand both what to include and why it is important in a story.

Editable Format (Note: As well as PDF files there are editable versions of the templates and recording sheet)

Transform sentence construction and writing development in your classroom with this editable Colourful Semantics Writing Support resource. Designed to support learners at all levels, this versatile tool includes:

  • Fully editable templates to insert your own symbols, illustrations, photographs, and text
  • Mind map and sentence strip templates for clear, visual sentence building
  • Stimulus pictures to inspire discussion and sentence generation
  • Colour-coded symbols to scaffold sentence structure
  • A fully editable recording sheet to add your own assessment criteria and monitor progress

Perfect for teaching:

  • fiction and non-fiction texts
  • recounts
  • narratives
  • descriptive writing
  • persuasive writing
  • journals and letter writing

These editable templates can also be used with the downloadable topic and story resource packs from Integrated Treatment Services.

Encourage more detailed, complex, and creative writing, while helping learners strengthen semantic links between words, sentence structure and word order.

Download now and start transforming your learners’ writing with structured, engaging and flexible support!

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