Narrative Structure Worksheet: Stages of a Story (Grade 7)
Free printable Grade 7 narrative structure worksheet. Students match definitions and story events to orientation, complication, rising action, climax and resolution. Answer key included.
Grade 7 · Reading worksheet
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Narrative Structure: Stages of a Story
Narratives are built in stages: orientation, complication, rising action, climax and resolution. Match each definition, then each event from the story of Ari's farm, to its stage.
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ClimaxResolutionOrientationComplicationRising action
- 1.Which stage of a narrative is this? "A problem disrupts the characters' ordinary world"
- a) Orientation
- b) Complication
- c) Rising action
- d) Climax
- e) Resolution
- 2.Which stage of a narrative is this? "The story reaches its moment of greatest tension"
- a) Orientation
- b) Complication
- c) Rising action
- d) Climax
- e) Resolution
- 3.Which stage of a narrative is this? "The characters, setting and situation are introduced"
- a) Orientation
- b) Complication
- c) Rising action
- d) Climax
- e) Resolution
- 4.Which stage of a narrative is this? "Events build and the stakes keep growing"
- a) Orientation
- b) Complication
- c) Rising action
- d) Climax
- e) Resolution
- 5.Which stage of a narrative is this? "The problem is sorted out and loose ends are tied up"
- a) Orientation
- b) Complication
- c) Rising action
- d) Climax
- e) Resolution
- 6.In the story of Ari's farm, which stage is this event? "At the last marked spring, her shovel strikes wet clay as the pump fails"
- a) Orientation
- b) Complication
- c) Rising action
- d) Climax
- e) Resolution
- 7.In the story of Ari's farm, which stage is this event? "Ari searches old maps and digs test holes as the tank level drops"
- a) Orientation
- b) Complication
- c) Rising action
- d) Climax
- e) Resolution
- 8.In the story of Ari's farm, which stage is this event? "Water flows to the troughs and the shearing goes ahead"
- a) Orientation
- b) Complication
- c) Rising action
- d) Climax
- e) Resolution
- 9.In the story of Ari's farm, which stage is this event? "Twelve-year-old Ari moves to a drought-stricken farm with her mother"
- a) Orientation
- b) Complication
- c) Rising action
- d) Climax
- e) Resolution
- 10.In the story of Ari's farm, which stage is this event? "The farm's only bore runs dry a week before shearing"
- a) Orientation
- b) Complication
- c) Rising action
- d) Climax
- e) Resolution
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