Years 2–6: Narrative Writing Routines Printable Planning Mats
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Narrative Writing Routines | Printable Planning Mats | Years 2–6 | Story Plans, Story Mountain, Character, Setting & More
Give your whole class a clear, simple way to plan a story before they write, with planning mats that grow with your writers from Year 2 to Year 6.
This pack brings together every planning page you need for narrative writing in one place. Start with the story plan for your year level, then add the planning mats when you're teaching that part of a narrative, from building a character and setting the mood to hooking the reader and writing dialogue. Every mat uses the same language as your writing lessons, so planning, writing and editing all connect. Use them as narrative writing planners or graphic organisers with any topic.
What's Included?
- 3 levelled story plans: beginning, middle and end with drawing space (Year 2) · who, where, when, the problem and the ending (Years 3–4) · orientation, complication, twist, resolution and ending (Years 5–6)
- My 4-Box Plan: the page in four quadrants, plus a blank version for students to label themselves
- My Story Mountain: plan how the problem builds to the moment of highest tension, plus a blank version
- My Character and My Setting planners
- My 5 Senses Plan for bringing one moment to life
- Hook My Reader: write the opening three ways and choose the strongest
- Show, Don't Tell: plan how a character's body, actions and words show a feeling
- My Dialogue Plan, with the words that show who's speaking
- My Picture Plan for writing from any picture prompt
- A lined writing page
- Teacher pages: what's included, how to use, which plan to use when, and curriculum links for Years 2–6
- Black and white, low-ink, print-ready A4 pages
Why These Planning Mats?
- Teaches students that a plan is dot points, not sentences, so they spend their time writing
- Levelled story plans make it easy to support and extend within one class
- Every story plan includes a word bank and "strong words I will use" to carry vocabulary into writing
- Works with any topic, prompt or picture you're already using, including Hello Primary Quick Write prompts
- Print only what you need: students plan on the mat and write in their books
Pairs well with the Persuasive Planning Mats, Informative Planning Mats and Hello Primary Quick Writes.
Resource Details
- Text Type: Narrative
- Focus: Planning a story before writing
- Stage: Stage 1 to Stage 3 (Years 2–6)
- Length: 20 pages
- Format: PDF
Simple to print, easy to teach, and ready for your next story.
This is a digital resource. You'll get an instant download link by email straight after checkout, and on your order confirmation page.
Yes. Every Hello Primary resource is written by an Australian primary teacher and aligned to the NSW English K–10 Syllabus and the Australian Curriculum v9.0. The curriculum links for this resource are included in the download.
Some Hello Primary resources are editable, such as our Canva frameworks and editable rubrics. If a resource is editable, the description will say so. If it isn't mentioned, the resource isn't editable.
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