4th Class English Story Writing Story writing

Real Life Examples

You watch cartoons every day. They They all are stories chota Bheem, Doraemon, Shin chan they all are characters which take you to the imaginary worlds. The movies we watch are also stories told.

Caution: when you watch cartoons or movies you must keep this in mind that it is all imaginary. You must know that what is shown on TV is fantasy and not real. SO, DO NOT APPLY IT INREAL LIFE AND DO NOT GET CARRIED AWAY.

Smallest story: Once I was travelling from Edinburgh t London. A man Came and sat on the opposite berth. He asked me- ?Do you believe in ghost?? I Said, ?No?. He Vanished.  

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

This lesson -will help you to:

write a story.

understand how to use prompts to build a story.

understand how to use pictures to build a story.  

QUICK CONCEPT REVIEW

In class-4 you can learn to communicate in complete thoughts for different purposes. At the beginning of class-4, you may still write in short, literal, choppy sentences but as you progress through the year, you learn to write more detailed essays and stories to communicate what you are learning. To help yourself learn how to write events in a story for a more flowing account, you can think of the story as a recipe. Using story maps and plot planners, you can gain proficiency in using literary devices to spin tales that fascinate readers with interesting details.

The outline of a story is the basic framework of a story. It is often just a skeleton outline. It shows us some of the main facts of the story and tells in brief what the story is like. We have to fill in all the details relevant to the story and thus make up a readable story.  

IMPORTANT HINTS

The following few hints will tell you how to build up a story from a given outline

1. Read the given outline carefully. Note all the points. Follow as strictly as possible the sketch provided.
2. Be careful to connect the points given in the outline naturally, so that the whole will read well as a connected piece of good composition.
3. You must use your imagination infilling the details of action, gesture and conversation that should connect one point with the next.
4. Where possible, introduce dialogue or conversation; but be careful to make it natural and interesting.
5. The conclusion or ending of a story should be striking and interesting.
6. If you are asked to give a title or heading to the story you may name it (i) after the main character, (ii) object or incident of the story.
7. Revise your writing and remove all mistakes in spelling, grammar, punctuation, etc.

Examples

HINT BASED

(A)      An old lady becomes blind _____ calls in a doctor _____ agrees to pay large fee if cured, but nothing if not _____ doctor calls daily _____ covets lady's furniture _____ delays the cure _____ every day takes away some of her furniture _____ at last cures her _____ demands his fees _____ lady refuses to pay, saying cure not complete _____ doctor brings a court case _____ judge asks lady why she will not pay _____ she says sight not properly restored _____ she cannot see all her furniture _____ judge gives verdict in her favour _____ moral.

Complete story:-

PICTURE BASED

(B) Complete story: Title _____" The goose that laid golden eggs" One day a poor farmer while cutting woods in the forest found a goose. He brought it home and gave it some food and water and a place to live in. The next morning when the farmer woke up, he was surprised to see that the goose had laid a golden egg. He told about this to his wife and she suggested him to sell the egg in the market in exchange of food and fuel. Again on next morning when the farmer woke up he found the same goose had laid another golden egg. The farmer and his wife both of them became very happy. Now every day the goose used to lay a golden egg. One day the farmer became greedy and thought of cutting the stomach of the goose and gets all the eggs at once and become a very rich person in the village. He took a sharp knife and killed the goose but in vain, he got none. He realized his mistake and again became a poor man. Moral: _____ "Greediness is a curse."