Where should the most important information in your story go? Where should it go from there? In order to maintain reader interest and help your story flow, understanding how a news story can be structured is key.
In This Lesson
Story Structure
- Why story structure matters
- The inverted pyramid style
- The hourglass structure
- The transition-quote (L-Q-T-Q) model
[Click here to view and use the presentation “Story Structure”]
Activity
Rearrange a Story
Time to conquer the inverted pyramid, hourglass, and L-Q-T-Q story models. In the corresponding activity, students (individually or in groups) will be presented with three stories cut up by paragraphs. Then, they should try rebuilding that story in accordance with one of the three aforementioned story structures. Some assembly of this activity is required of the teacher.
[Click here to view the instructions to setup the activity “Rearrange a Story”]