Teaching Stages of Story Development, Teacher’s Guide

Five Steps of Story Writing:

Exposition
The exposition includes three main components:

• main character/s (there is at least one main character and often times there are a couple secondary or supporting characters),
• setting (where the story takes place),
• conflict (the main problem of the story that gets things moving).

Rising Action
The main character is trying to solve his/her problem. It should include different actions that build suspense in the story. (Try to name two to four different things that take place to increase the problem.)

Climax
The point in the story that might be considered the most important point or the point at which things take a shift. It might be considered the turning point of the story.

Falling Action
The events that take the story toward a resolution, the winding down.

Resolution
The grand finale. The “happily ever after” statement at the end of the story.