Grade 5 English: Narrative and Creative Composition

Free Grade 5 English unit on Narrative and Creative Composition: 10 lessons in order. Includes practice questions and answer keys.

10 lessons in this unit

Plan a story with characters, setting, a problem, events and a resolution before writing.

Develop a plot with a beginning, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution.

Develop characters through appearance, actions, speech, thoughts and feelings.

Write dialogue that sounds natural, moves the story forward and is punctuated correctly.

Use sensory details, strong verbs, precise adjectives and figurative language to describe settings and events.

Choose and sustain first-person or third-person narration when writing a story.

Control the pace of a story by speeding up or slowing down with sentence length, detail and word choice.

Express ideas creatively through original stories, poems, scripts and imaginative writing, using voice and imagination.

Revise a longer story by checking structure, character, detail and language, and by responding to feedback.

Prepare a final copy of a composition and share it with an audience in print, digital or spoken form.